Apple is taking a long time to implement a fingerprint sensor in Macbooks that allows unlock your Mac without entering your password. In the Kickstarter financing platform, several devices have appeared that connect to USB and that have a fingerprint sensor through which we can unlock access to the Mac, but it is still a trick.
Currently many PC manufacturers have implemented a fingerprint sensor for several years that avoids the need to enter the access password, a process that greatly speeds up access to our computer at times when we are in a hurry than usual. Or like Microsoft with Windows Hello, which automatically recognizes our face and gives us access to the PC without using fingerprints or passwords.
As reported by MacRumors, the next version of Apple's operating system for computers, OS X 10.12 could allow unlocking the Mac through the fingerprint sensor of our iPhone with Touch ID. Apparently Apple engineers are working on an automatic unlocking function of the Mac when we approach the Mac with our iPhone without having to enter any password.
Like other apps, the Mac would use the Bluetooth LE connection, a function similar to that used by the Apple Watch when we put it on our wrist and we simply have to unlock the iPhone so that it can be put into operation again by skipping the code unlock.
In addition, this new way of unlocking the Mac would also be used in combination with Apple Pay to be able make payments through the browser, to be able to verify our identity in payments. The preliminary version of OS X 10.12, the first betas will reach the developers starting next June 13, the day on which the conferences for developers will begin where Apple will present all the news of the different operating systems on which Apple has been working these last months and where one of the novelties will be the introduction of Siri in OS X, as we informed you a few days ago.
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