{"id":83384,"date":"2015-11-09T18:08:27","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T16:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=83384"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:08:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:08:19","slug":"panic-button-on-ios-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/panic-button-on-ios-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"Panic button on iOS devices?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While we were doing our research for Fallout 4 week, we came across a <a href=\"http:\/\/appft1.uspto.gov\/netacgi\/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&amp;Sect2=HITOFF&amp;d=PG01&amp;p=1&amp;u=\/netahtml\/PTO\/srchnum.html&amp;r=1&amp;f=G&amp;l=50&amp;s1=20150319294.PGNR.\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">patent <\/a>filed by Apple back in May 2014 for a <strong>&#8216;panic button&#8217; which could be integrated with Touch ID<\/strong> on iOS devices. According <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/apple-patented-a-way-for-an-iphone-to-enter-panic-mode-when-unlocked-with-a-specific-finger-2015-11\">Business Insider<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2015\/11\/05\/apple-patents-touch-id-panic-mode\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mac Rumours<\/a>, the panic button could be activated when a predefined finger is used to unlock your device.<\/p>\n<p>When &#8216;panic mode&#8217; is activated, the device could be instructed to <strong>&#8216;lock down&#8217; to prevent a breach of personal data and information<\/strong>, and your <strong>position could be broadcasted to the authorities<\/strong> (or possibly even nearby devices).<\/p>\n<p>It is obviously too early to speculate when this will be implemented, if at all. But we rekon that it would be a <strong>very useful feature to have on our iOS devices<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we were doing our research for Fallout 4 week, we came across a patent filed by Apple back in May 2014 for a &#8216;panic button&#8217; which could be integrated with Touch ID on iOS devices. According Business Insider and Mac Rumours, the panic button could be activated when a predefined finger is used to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/panic-button-on-ios-devices\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Panic button on iOS devices?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2064,"featured_media":83385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-83384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2064"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329451,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83384\/revisions\/329451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83384"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=83384"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=83384"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=83384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}