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I decided to buy one of these, and while it is pretty awesome to have Touch ID, the keyboard itself sucks. It’s like typing on a crappy laptop keyboard…I got it BNIB on eBay, so I didn’t pay full price, but it was still way too expensive. But…I have an idea. What if the guts of this thing could be transplanted into a KeyChron (or some other enthusiast grade chassis with proper hot swappable switches and customizable key caps), along with the Touch ID sensor? Now THAT would be pretty amazing. I don’t have the skill or the resources or even the time to do such a thing, but if anyone else is interested, or wants to give this a try, or has any other ideas…I doubt there are many Mac users around these parts, just figured I would post this anyway though Would it be difficult to adapt proper mechanical switches to Apple’s controller PCB? I did find one other person on Twitter who took one of these apart and just extracted the single Touch ID sensor (along with the battery and controller board), and is using it that way, and it definitely works.

Source: http://www.anandtech.com/show/10799/apple-announces-4th-generation-macbook-pro-family-thinner-lighter-with-thunderbolt-3-touch-bar The rumored Macbook Pros are finally here, and with them, most of the rumored features. There's an OLED Touch Bar, Touch ID, and much, much more. 4th GenMacBook Pro Lineup Model 2015 15" 2016 13" (basic) 2016 13" (touch) 2016 15" Dimensions 1.8 cm x 35.89 cm x 24.71 cm 1.49 cm x 30.41 cm x 21.24 cm 1.55 cm x 34.93 cm x 24.07 cm Weight 4.49 lbs (2.04 kg) 3.02 lbs (1.37 kg) 4.02 lbs (1.83 kg) CPU 2.2GHz Core i7-4770HQ (Haswell) 2.0GHz Core i5-6360U (Skylake) 2.9GHz Core i5-6267U (Skylake) 2.0GHz Core i7-6700HQ (Skylake) GPU Intel Iris Pro 5200 Intel Iris Graphics 540 Intel Iris Graphics 550 Intel HD Graphics 530 + Radeon Pro 450 (2GB) Display 15" 2880 x 1800 IPS LCD sRGB Gamut 13" 2560 x 1600 IPS LCD P3 Gamut 15" 2880 x 1800 IPS LCD P3 Gamut Memory 16GB DDR3L-1600 8GB LPDDR3-1866 8GB LPDDR3-2133 16GB LPDDR3-2133 SSD 256GB PCIe SSD (PCIe x2) 256GB PCIe SSD Toucb Bar No No Yes I/O 2x Thunderbolt 2 (supports DP1.2), 1x HDMI 1.4, 2x USB 3.0 (Type-A), 3.5mm Audio, SDXC Slot 2x Thunderbolt 3 (supports DP1.2 & USB 3.1 Gen 2 modes), 3.5mm Audio 4x Thunderbolt 3 (supports DP1.2 & USB 3.1 Gen 2 modes), 3.5mm Audio Battery Capacity 99.5 Wh 54.5 Wh 49.2 Wh 76 Wh Battery Life 9 Hours 10 Hours Price $1999 $1499 $1799 $2399 The new Macbook Pros are packed full of new features, but along with the new features comes a huge increase in price. Even the "basic" Macbook Pro's base offering is even more expensive than last year's base Macbook Pro. Granted, it contains double the storage, but even then the "basic" Macbook Pro costs the same as last year. That's not even mentioning the "fancy" Macbook Pros, which cost a few hundred dollars more than last years. Still though, there's some cool new features in the new 2016 models that should be mentioned. We're getting a new thinner and lighter Macbook Pro this year, that also has some other changes. Among this is a bigger trackpad, a butterfly switch keyboard (basically the same as the one on the Macbook), and Thunderbolt 3 ports on the side. The only I/O on this year's Macbook Pros is Thunderbolt 3 and a headphone jack. This offers a huge amount of bandwidth and the ports can be used for charging, too, but this also means a lot of your peripherals will need adapters now. We also get upgraded internals, in the form of Skylake, Polaris GPUs on the 15" Macbook Pro, and a new, faster SSD. As well, it has been said that the new displays have "variable refresh rate," so it'll be interesting if the new Macs come with freesync. OLED Touch Bar The new Macs also have the largely rumored OLED Touch Bar on the top above the keyboard. The bar is only present on the more expensive "fancy" Macbook Pros, and replaces the function keys. The program running can change what's displayed on the bar which gives many different things that can be done with it. This is pretty cool IMO, and how much it can really be used in the real world will remain to be seen. Touch ID Also rumored and true, the new Macs have a Touch ID fingerprint sensor on the side of the OLED Bar. It's a physical button that also functions as the power button. This seems cool, as signing in will be a lot simpler. That's pretty much everything we know about the new Macs. We didn't get a new Macbook Air or Macbook; the "basic" Macbook Pro is supposed to replace the Air (though I'm not sure how that'll work if it's around 50% more expensive). They seem pretty cool and have a lot of cool features though the price is pretty expensive. What are your thoughts? I personally find them as really cool, neat laptops, but the price really ruins it. Note: I have a feeling someone's gonna come and be like "Repost!" No, it's not a repost. There are no posts about the new Macbook Pros in this sub-forum, only ones about the live event, which is different.

This laptop is about a month old. According to Apple the laptop can be turned on by opening the lid. The problem is I often find the laptop doesn't turn on when I open the lid. I encountered this 4/5 times. So, it's not that frequent. Each time this happened, I plugged in the charger and immediately opened the lid, the laptop didn't turn on. To turn it on, either I had to press the touch ID/power button or close the lid and open it again. I was just wondering if others have encountered it. Googled it, couldn't find anything on it.

Source: Apple's Support Page and Whitepaper (FaceID_Security_Guide.pdf) via Tech Crunch It's good that Apple released a whitepaper to clarify the issue and I encourage everyone to read their support page as well as their detailed whitepaper as to how they keep Face ID secure and how they respond to Al Franken's questions so here are some key points from Appe: Basically very similar as to how Touch ID is securing fingerprint data. Touch ID is a capacitive CMOS sensor that takes a high DPI image of the fingerprint and converts it into math representation and discards the image after. The math representation is stored locally in the Secure Enclave of the A7 chip and above. Sucks for people with identical twins then but Apple didn't say that an identical twin can unlock it, it's just a lower probability. Again, this one should be tested among identical twins as I remember, even identical twins can't fool Windows Hello. As twins grow, they actually become more and more distinct. But then if you're 13 and below, your parents should just get you the regular iPhone 8 or better yet, no phone at all and focus at school. I wonder what does Apple mean by a mathematical representation? Is it just a random string of numbers and letters that are salted and hashed? They won't tell. I think they probably shouldn't. And finally, here's Apple's response to Al Franken if Face ID data is uploaded to Apple servers or not. Now this is the part that it's a little bit sketchy. Apple says that Face ID data is stored locally and encrypted so that's a plus. But then, you have the option to submit your Face ID diagnostic data as telemetry? I always commend Apple for their commitment to privacy and standing up against inserting encryption backdoors but Face ID diagnostic data? What do they mean by diagnostic data? Because I'm pretty sure my iPhone's Touch ID doesn't have diagnostic data. I hope Apple clarifies this and maybe a non-trollish forum member could clarify it. The good is that you have the option to disable Face ID telemetry and I think anyone with an iPhone X should unless Apple can do this in a very secure and private manner. I mean, macOS's telemetry is actually way less creepy than Windows 10 because they would just take diagnostic data and personal information like email addresses, usernames and passwords are filtered out before it's being sent. In fact, you can view the actual telemetry data on an iPhone and iPad which is very transparent unlike other operating systems and you can always opt out instead of asinine options of full telemetry or telemetry lite but no telemetry off.

Well, it appears that the famed Touch ID is making a comeback in the next set of Apple phones. Apple seems to be readying up with full-screen Touch ID from the no. of patents that have been filed recently. Quote from International Business Times: One of the main problems with Touch ID is the need for a physical button or some other thing to read fingerprints, thus flawing the "sleek look" that many love. Apple hopes to fix this by turning the entire display into a fingerprint reader. My opinion: I think that this is a nice idea, especially if you are in a situation where you don't want to take your phone out and stare at it because it's impolite or something. It's not like I use an Apple phone, but I know plenty of people that use iPhones that a longing for Touch ID back. What I really want is something new as a form of authentication, something that's never been done yet. Sources: https://www.ibtimes.com/apple-reviving-touch-id-tim-cooks-firm-reportedly-mulling-display-fingerprint-reader-2789085 https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/04/30/full-screen-touch-id-could-come-to-the-iphone-with-acoustic-fingerprint-imaging

Hello I have two questions is the touch bar on the MacBook Pro worth the extra cost? If the touch bar is not worth it is the Touch ID worth it in itself?

Primary Sources: W3C, Fido Alliance Secondary Source: Engadget At the moment, only Mozilla Firefox supports WebAuthn with Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome to add support to this new web standard. Unfortunately, no mention from WebKit's website anything about adding the same support but I expect them to do the same thing maybe in WWDC 2018. I don't know how secure this is compared to a long alphanumeric password assuming that it isn't stolen. Here's some words of assurance from the Fido Alliance: I'm pretty sure at the moment a lot of people can already sign in to websites in their phones using biometric authentication to unlock their third party password manager. In my case I used LastPass and it works very well for me as it supports both Touch ID and Face ID as well as in Android. Here are some use cases W3C thinks this new standard can be useful: So when can I sign in to Linus Tech Tips using my fingerprint @colonel_mortis? /s I'm by no means a web developer but looking at the W3C specifications, this is something already in existence using third party password managers that support biometric authentication, hardware based authentication like Yubico's Yubikey andtwo-factor authentication with a smartphone only this time, the website must support it and the feature is built in to the browser. I see this as more of a convenience feature meaning I don't have to type my long passwords in each website and according to them, it reduces MITM attacks by using your biometrics to login instead of your passwords which can be stolen. But my concern is that biometrics can be spoofed nor they are protected by laws like America's 4th amendment so as nice as this open standard is for logging in, I think most people are better off with a password + password manager + two factor authentication. So many people have said the password is dead but I think not yet. It sucks that Apple didn't participated and they're quite slow in adapting open standards.

Hello! So, I have no idea what happened, but somehow today I cracked the home button on my iphone 6s. The home button still works fine, but touch id doesn't. Not having touch id doesn't bother me too much (although it is nice), however a shattered home button really irritates me. I am fairly comfortable repairing electronics, so this is more of an error 53 question. I have LED logo modded my iphone, so I no longer am able to send my phone to apple to re-activate it after I install a new home button, so I'm not really sure what my options are. Does anyone know of a 3rd party company that would be willing to help me (with a modded iphone) to verify the repair (or even do it if they have a way to verify it)? I could always try to undo the mod, but once someone opens the phone they will know something is different. Also, anyone know what this might cost? Anything you have to say is extremely helpful and appreciated. Thank you so much for taking the time to read this. -Calvin Edit: So It's looking like I'm going to install a new home button myself, and not restore any of the touch-id features. I'm okay with that. My question now is that I am currently on ios 9.2 (still holding out for a jailbreak). Do I need to be on ios 9.3 before the repair to make sure I don't brick my phone? Or am I safe to do it now? Thanks for the help

Personally I'm pretty excited but I wish the updated macs were being shown off thins WWDC as earlier reported. Apple always have trend to delay the exciting stuff first with iPhone 8 and now this. Anyways this is a pretty much confirmed rumour as Kuo had previously correctly predicted iPhone 6S, rose gold and the SE among many other things Source: http://9to5mac.com/2016/05/23/apple-prepping-thinner-macbook-pros-with-oled-screen-above-keyboard-touch-id-for-q4/

Source: http://9to5mac.com/2016/02/18/ios-9-2-1-error-53-update/ Apple's Updated Documetnation: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205628 Apple's Statement: Well done Apple. Glad to see that they fixed this in a relatively short time and apologized for it. In fact they're also reimbursing anyone who had to pay for out of warranty repairing. Apparently this whole was just Touch ID validation check before it leaves the factory But I'm not too sure about how Apple's handling 3rd party home button and IMO they shouldn't allow 3rd party replacements for something as sensitive as a fingerprint imaging button UPDATE: iOS will disable Touch ID if it detects it as a 3rd Party Source:http://www.gsmarena.com/apple_fixed_its_error_53_modified_touch_id_sensor_wont_brick_iphone-blog-16717.php Leave your thoughts down beloooow.....

http://www.redmondpie.com/iphone-5s-touch-id-requires-a-live-finger-to-unlock-wont-work-with-one-thats-severed-from-body/ Touch ID is way advanced then we all think: 1) It doesn't have ugly (those black things with lines which are usually found in laptops) 2)You don't have to swipe your finger, it can identify you from any part of the finger 3)It's very fast, All the hands-on videos show that 4) It only works with skin, as it can sense sub-epidermal cells 5)It's encrypted in the A7 chip. No one could possibly get your fingerprint information out 6)And it won't work with severed finger I'm sure the guys that broke the fingerprint door which Linus showed all of us will have a hard time getting into the iPhone