iosfangirl6001

Rosyna said:

SpamSandwich said:

As I've mentioned a number of times, for any who require complete security with their iPhone, Touch ID should only be used for Apple Pay, but not to open the phone.

Anything you "have on you" (including your fingerprint) may legally be used against you. The contents of your brain (including a passcode) are secure (for now, at least until they perfect live brain activity scans and thought visualization...and believe it or not, this is being worked on).

This isn't correct. TouchID has numerous safeguards for this exact type of situation. TouchID does not use the fingerprint as a master password and is automatically disabled in these cases:

After 48 hours of non-use.
After a reboot.
After five incorrect attempts. (You cannot be forced to tell LEOs which finger it is).
If a lock command is sent to the device via Find My iPhone.

TouchID is meant to enable the usage of much longer and more secure passcodes without the risk of lookiloos seeing you enter it.

When TouchID is disabled, people tend to choose extremely short, 4 digit PINs due to how tedious it is to enter better passcodes on a mobile device.