(Although if you're paranoid, a passcode option is available).
The passcode option is only marginally more inconvenient than a registered Touch ID fingerprint, of course, but it still makes a difference, especially if someone's only very occasionally accessing your device and might not have committed a pin to muscle memory as a result.
They'd then be presented with a secondary screen, either r a rotating dial that lets them input a combination in the same way you would with a standard combination lock, or with a pattern screen that resembles those Google uses as a passcode option on its Android devices.
Setting up the feature involves going to the "passcode and fingerprint" option in the phone's settings menu.
Those features include the ability to search files across an entire company, a new dashboard offering more granular controls for company administrators, mobile security options like passcode locks, support for multiple email domains, activity notification archiving, and a new enterprise licensing agreement.
Apple increases the security measures within iOS with every major software release, but yesterday news broke that the company is working to remove the current passcode-free recovery option from future iPhones, while it wants to begin encrypting iPhone backups on iCloud.
(Apple offers multiple options for iOS passcodes — default requiring a six-digit passcode, but also supporting longer strings of letters and numbers if a user chooses. Though it also lets users revert to a four-digit passcode if they really want to).
Enter a passcode of your choice into the passcode field provided.
Some readers also commented that there's now an option for longer passcode lock periods, more robust support for IMAP mail accounts, and a host of other enhancements.
In iOS 4 and later, there is a new option on the Passcode setting.
