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The legal situation is more complex and nuanced than the headline implies, so the article is worth reading. This adds another ruling to the confusing case history regarding forced biometric unlocking.
And then some random dude takes a peek at you entering said password, and steals the phone :/
GrapheneOS has an option to scramble the numbers on the unlock screen. I don’t know if that’s a base android thing or available on IOS
Correct. Not sure about iOS either, but many custom roms can, e.g. divestos, probably resurrection remix used to have it back when it was a thing (not sure here, but I distinctly remember having this feature somewhere before graphene)
In order to turn off the Find My iPhone functionality, you need the Apple ID password, so this isn’t even a real concern. You can even remotely lock the phone with a new password. Apple has made stealing an iPhone and making it work afterwards very hard.
The idea is usually to access the victim’s banking app, or 2fa app, etc, AFAIK.
Both of those require their own password or biometrics, so you couldn’t access those either.
Idk about iOS, but android lets you add a fingerprint using the lock screen password
When changing biometric data on the iPhone, it locks you out of using it in other apps, making you put in your bank/other specific password.