Apple engineers are working hard to develop new technologies at the Apple headquarters in Cupertino, and one presented in a recent patent shows us how Apple could significantly improve the security of iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches. Everything is based on technology touch ID whose fingerprint reader could be used in the future to record gestures undertaken by users in order to unlock terminals or applications.
More precisely, users could use a virtual digit and rotations of the finger placed on Touch ID to unlock the terminal, Apple practically offering a double level of security, the digit being displayed but only if the correct fingerprint is read. The same thing can be used for systems that involve drawing various objects on the screen, the systems being activated by reading the correct fingerprint, and then the user must also know the cipher code or the shape of the object to be able to unlock.
Apple is developing a two-step security system for Touch ID
Practically, using current technologies for explanation, the future system would combine fingerprint reading with entering a security code, but the user would not have to take his finger off the fingerprint reader button to unlock. Such a system would provide almost total security for users, because the simple cloning of a fingerprint would have no effect without the code or the combination of movements made on the screen to allow the unlocking of the terminal.
Of course, for now the technology is in the process of testing and there are small chances that it will appear together with iPhone 6s si iOS 9, but maybe the iPhone 7 will have it implemented in a first form as soon as it is released together with iOS 10. From my point of view, the idea behind the technology is great and I think that a lot of people would be happy to benefit from a like a safety net, but I'm curious what you think.
