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Unrelatedly, I'm still trying to figure out why Apple requires me to unlock my phone to look at the weather. Is there some concern that someone could pick up my
by throwaway894345 6d ago
Unrelatedly, I'm still trying to figure out why Apple requires me to unlock my phone to look at the weather. Is there some concern that someone could pick up my phone and learn what city it is in?
- freeplay 6d agoYou want to be able to launch apps without unlocking your phone? Slippery slope.
- throwaway894345 6d agoIf the app doesn't have any sensitive information, then yes. We already do this with home screen widgets today, so clearly there's no real barrier.
- zamalek 6d agoApps can have vulnerabilities (intentional or not). It's a contrived example, but maybe some weather app has a custom icon feature, which means you can then browse photos by opening it on the lock screen and going to that setting.
- throwaway894345 5d agoWidgets can't have vulnerabilities?
- zamalek 5d agoThey can, but scope and features increase surface area: their limited functionality intrinsically limits that.
- kevin_thibedeau 6d agoCamera app does it.
- derefr 6d agoNope; the lockscreen camera is actually an entirely different app, or not-quite-app thing. (Note what happens when you open the camera roll in the lockscreen camera.)
- jshier 6d agoYou can use the weather widget on the lock screen, and as long as you have lock screen content when locked enabled, you can see the current area's weather just fine. Or do you want the whole app experience?
- throwaway27448 6d agoI'm a little too lazy to experiment, but it wouldn't surprise me if that widget didn't function normally until the phone is unlocked.
- jen20 6d agoI just tried it. It works fine.
- throwaway27448 6d agoThe software can read from the phone without unlocking it?
- jshier 6d agoAfter the first unlock after a reboot yes, except for those items with very high security (usually just keychain items) that require an unlock for every access. Lock screen items can be locked every time you lock the phone, or set to allow access while locked (after first unlock). Unfortunately this is an all or nothing setting, unless the widget specifically uses the redaction views to hide content. Oddly, I find the weather widget refreshes much more often than the app. I'll tap on the widget, which is up to date, which launches the weather app, which could be from yesterday, and have to wait while it refreshes. Apparently the app doesn't implement any background refresh at all, which is really weird.
- throwaway27448 6d agoSo—the widget doesn't function normally until the phone is unlocked? I don't want to flex but that seems worth acknowledging from every perspective
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