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  • Apple quietly toughens rules forcing passcode unlocks of Touch ID devices

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    rob53 said:

    gorobotgo said:
    So this makes a lot of sense. I was confused by why I was being asked to enter my passcode first thing in the morning, seemingly randomly. I had assumed that this was a bug, that my phone had been rebooting or respringing in the night (since that does seem to happen sometimes). Now I understand that this was probably in cases where I had gotten a full night's sleep (8 hours or more), and it had been more than 6 days since I had unlocked my phone with my passcode. I do wish that they'd expand that 8 hours to a more reasonable 12, so that getting a full 8 hours of sleep isn't the trigger for forcing you to unlock with your passcode, though; thanks to Touch ID being so convenient, I changed my passcode to an unguessable 20+ character string, and having to type that in first thing in the morning, still half-asleep, is a challenge that I really don't need in my life.
    According to U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Published July 12, 2015, http://www.lifescript.com/parenting-pregnancy/parenting/articles/how_long_is_a_good_nights_sleep.aspx, the following guidelines put Apple's 8 hrs in line with most adults. It's the younger users who might be affected but I've never seen a teenager who doesn't access their phone constantly.

    Most adults need 7 to 8 hours of sleep each night. 
    Teens need at least 9 hours of sleep each night.
    School-aged and preschool children need 10 to 12 hours of sleep.
    Newborns sleep between 16 and 18 hours a day.
    Ugh.  Thank you for the breakdown of how long people of various ages sleep.  I guess preschoolers are going to have a hard time unlocking their phones with their tiny fingers.  

    Your conjecture, of course, is that Apple makes a reasonable assumption that an adult looks at their phone immediately preceding falling asleep and then again immediately upon waking up in order to avoid the inconvenience of entering a passcode again.  If that is some folks use case, then great.  I would think that a lot of folks, myself included, are certainly not that attached to my phone.

    In any case, the solution is very simple and as others have suggested: allow it to be configurable with an 8 hour default.
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