IOS devices include a function that will allow us to locate an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad if we have lost it. This security feature is light years away from other software such as iCaughtU, a Cydia tweak that takes photos with the front camera of which we enter our code or fingerprint incorrectly. But one new patent Apple suggests that, once again, Cupertino will rely on some of the jailbreak to improve the software on their mobile devices.
The patent in question is called "Unauthorized User Identification Biometric Capture" and describes a system that take photos, video and save the fingerprints of unauthorized users, which could help the police to capture the thief, as long as the terminal had been stolen.
Patent suggests iCaughtU will come to iPhone
The device would determine whether to capture biometric information in response to the use of one or more conditions. These conditions could be part of other instructions of one or more electronic devices, detection of a potential unauthorized use of a device and other factors. The device would store the information locally biometric, which could be a fingerprint, one or more photos of the unauthorized user, video of the user, environmental sounds and other legal information. The information collected could also be sent to one or more authorized users.
Un informe publicado en 2014 aseguraba que el activation lock (Activation Lock) of iOS 7 drastically reduced iPhone thefts. Supposedly, thieves would not be willing to take the risk of stealing a phone that they could not sell in the future. If Apple includes this function in the official version of iOS, without having to use the jailbreak, it is likely that iPhone thefts will go down even more, something totally understandable.
As we always say, that a patent has been registered does not mean that we will see it on a device in the future, but it serves to know in which direction a company works. In my opinion, it is something that they would have to include in a future version of iOS. And not only would Apple have to do it, if not all manufacturers of mobile phones or their software. Anything so that these types of criminals do not get away with it and make money with what is not theirs.
And then they let us do stupid things like the fact that you can turn off the phone without having the lock code or Touch ID, it all makes perfect sense, bravo for Apple and logical as always.