Sentence examples for erase function from inspiring English sources

It adds extra precision to the erase function, too, depending on how you angle the eraser on the drawing service.

"What we're asking them to do is to help us disable the password erase function, that basically wipes the phone if you guess the password wrong after 10 times," Lynch said.

"What we're asking them to do is to help us disable the password erase function, that basically wipes the phone if you guess the password wrong after ten times.

That assistance should allow investigators to "bypass or erase the auto-erase function" on the phone, among other steps, she wrote.

First, GovOS would bypass the auto-erase function for an individual iPhone.

It wants Apple to disable or bypass the auto-erase function of iOS that erases your phone if too many wrong passwords are input.

One outcome could be that Apple grinds down the asks until they just disable the auto-erase function, which is an operating system option that already exists, and leave the rest of it to the FBI to figure out.

That's because, beyond the passcode itself, Apple's security measures include an 'auto-erase function' which, if activated by a user, will erase all data on a device if the passcode is entered incorrectly 10 times.

He explains that the auto-erase function doesn't actually wipe the phone of its content.

That assistance includes disabling the phone's auto-erase function, which activates after 10 consecutive unsuccessful passcode attempts and assisting investigators to submit passcode guesses electronically.

The auto-erase function is an Apple feature designed to protect a customer's data and privacy — an iPhone is automatically wiped clean following 10 failed passcode attempts.