Temporarily disabling Face ID or Touch ID to require a password to unlock your iPhone or iPad is simple. Here’s how you do it.

Apple makes it fairly simple to temporarily disable its biometric authentication features and force the entry of a password in order to access an iPhone. This is true both for Touch ID and Face ID.

Quickly disabling Face ID or Touch ID can be useful for a number of reasons, but particularly if you’re afraid that someone will try to unlock your phone without your permission. This could include law enforcement, criminals, or even just nosy family members.

Which devices support Face ID?
Which devices support Touch ID?
How to temporarily disable Face ID or Touch ID

Which devices support Face ID?

As of May 2020, there are three generations of iPhone and two generations of iPad Pro that support Face ID.

iPhone X
iPhone XR
iPhone XS
iPhone XS Max
iPhone 11
iPhone 11 Pro
iPhone 11 Pro Max
iPad 11-inch (2018)
iPad 12.9-inch (2018)
iPad 11-inch (2020)
iPad 12…

The Internet of Things is constantly evolving and adding new products and categories, providing you with a ton of smart solutions and gadgets for your home. Two popular choices of digital assistants these days involve Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s HomeKit with Siri. Here are all of the smart home accessories that work flawlessly with both Alexa and HomeKit so you can keep things flexible.

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The store was absolutely devastated on Thursday night.

What you need to know

The Minneapolis Apple store has been devastated by looters.
The store was boarded up on Thursday after an attack on the glass front.
Overnight, looters gained entry and took everything.

Apple’s Minneapolis store on Hennepin Avenue has been ransacked by looters, amidst riots in the city following the death of George Floyd.

The store was attacked earlier in the week by looters who pulled up to the store in cars, attacking the storefront glass with a sledgehammer before leaving.

From that report:

Apple’s Uptown Minneapolis Store, located on Hennepin Avenue was also targeted during the protests. According to local outlet Wedge LIVE, the Uptown store has had its window smashed during the course of the violence.

An eyewitness reportedly said:

”Wow, just watched a bunch of cars pull up to the Apple store and people were gathering, a sledge hammer was pulled out and took a few swings then they …

We round up the week’s biggest news stories.

It’s been a quieter week on the ”big” rumor front, but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t plenty of great Apple news to read this week. From landmark jailbreaking news, a big iOS 13 bug, new Powerbeats Pro, and an exciting new show for Apple TV+, here’s a round-up of all the latest news.

unc0ver

In absolutely mammoth jailbreaking news, unc0ver, a new iOS jailbreak was released to the public earlier this week. This is the first time in a very long time that a jailbreak has been available for current iPhones and the latest operating system. Unc0ver works with iOS 13.5 and is compatible with the iPhone 11, iPhone SE, and the new iPad Pro.

Jailbreak for ’every signed iOS version on every device’ now available

A bug’s life

Apple confirmed that a major iOS bug that prevented apps from launching has been fixed. Last week, following the release of iOS 13.5, Apple users found themselves unable to open their apps for no apparent reason. Apple …

The long-awaited debut of HBO Max is finally here and it’s nearly perfect.

The latest streaming video service is here, and it’s a game-changer. HBO Max from WarnerMedia comes with 10,000 hours of curated content at launch and has a familiar name. However, it’s much bigger than the HBO you’ve come to love. In addition to offering full access to HBO’s ever-growing library of original content, HBO Max also includes titles from DC Comics, Sesame Street, TCM, Adult Swim, and much more.

The best part about HBO Max: If you already subscribe to HBO, it’s likely you already have your golden ticket.

It’s not just HBO — it’s HBO Max

HBO Max

Bottom line: With HBO Max, you get everything you love about HBO plus more original content and full seasons of classics like Friends, The Big Bang Theory, and Sesame Street. You can also find a ma…

Italian authorities ruled in 2018 that Apple should pay a 10 million euro fine.

What you need to know

Apple has lost its appeal against an iPhone slow down ruling.
Italian authorities ruled that Apple should pay 10 million euros in 2018.
Apple was previously accused of using ”unfair commercial practices,” a ruling upheld by the appeal court.

Apple has lost an appeal to a court in Italy over a 10 million euro fine it received back in 2018.

The fine was issued to Apple over the iPhone ’slowdown’ controversy, whereby Apple used software updates to manage iOS processes to stop unexpected iPhone shutdowns. Authorities in 2018 ruled that Apple (and Samsung) had ”implemented unfair commercial practices.” Now, in a new judgment from a court in the country, that ruling has been upheld.

Obsolescenza programmata iPhone 6/6s con iOS 10, Apple ha pagato € 10 mln di multa in Italia https://t.co/y1947I4SIm ($ 500 mln in USA https://t.co/qfLvxTytBC), ora giù il sipario sui ricorsi da parte…

The contentious clauses included valuing plant and machinery brought into the country at just 40% of its value.

What you need to know

Apple’s opportunities for manufacturing in India just got a big boost.
That’s because the government has dropped contentious clauses from its manufacturing policy.
It is also in talks with a third Apple partner, Pegatron, about a relocation to the country.

The government in India has removed several contentious clauses from its manufacturing policy, paving the way for Apple to do more business in the country.

As reported by The Economic Times:

The government has dropped contentious clauses including the evaluation of plant and machinery to be brought from China and South Korea, which had been opposed mainly by Apple, paving the way for the iPhone maker and others like Samsung, Foxconn, Oppo, Vivo, and Flextronics to make a larger play in local production using the production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme.

One official told the outlet that …

Zynn is a brand new app backed by a rival to TikTok owner Bytedance.

What you need to know

A new TikTok clone has taken the App Store by storm.
Zynn is backed by a rival to TikTok parent company Bytedance.
Zynn uses a very aggressive reward scheme to attract users.

A new TikTok clone has taken the App Store by storm and is currently sitting at number one in the charts thanks to an aggressive rewards model that looks an awful lot like a pyramid scheme.

As reported by MashableUK:

If you’ve visited the App Store on your iPhone over the past few days, you might have noticed an app you’ve never heard of before occupying the number one spot on the charts.

The app, Zynn, is a brand-new, short-form video platform that launched earlier this month on Apple’s App Store and Google Play. So what is it? A glance at Zynn’s barebones website shows nothing more than links to the aforementioned app stores and a few screenshots of the app, which appears to be very reminiscent of TikTok….

Zoom is rolling out new GCM encryption, beginning May 30.

What you need to know

Zoom is rolling out GCM encryption across its platform this weekend.
That means if you want to keep using Zoom and joining meetings, you need to update.
If you can’t update the desktop client, you can use the mobile app or the web client instead

Popular video-conferencing app Zoom has announced that users must update their desktop client after this weekend in order to continue joining meetings, as it rolls out GCM encryption for all Zoom meetings.

Zoom announced that it would begin enabling GCM encryption on May 30, at 01:00 PDT. The update is a really welcome boost to Zoom’s security, which was found to be lacking following the app’s meteoric rise thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. Whilst not as good as end-to-end encryption, GCM, or (Galois/Counter Mode) is a higher-quality security system, perfect for video conferencing, because it uses a stream cipher, rather than a block cipher. Zoom’s update not…