The devices iOS include a function that we will allow locating an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad if it have lost. This safety feature is light-years from other software such as iCaughtU, a tweak from Cydia that makes pictures with the front camera of which enter our code or fingerprint incorrectly. But a new patent of Apple suggests that, a time more, them of Cupertino is based in something of the jailbreak to improve the software in their devices mobile.
The patent in question receives the name of “Unauthorised user identification Biometric capture” and describes a system that would take photos, video and would keep the traces of unauthorised users, which could help police capture the thief, provided they had stolen us terminal.
Patent suggests that iCaughtU will come to the iPhone
The device would determine if capture biometric information in response to the use of one or more conditions. These conditions could be part of other instructions from one or more electronic devices, detection of a potential unauthorized use of a device, and other factors. The device it would locally stored information biometric, which could be a fingerprint, one or more pictures of the unauthorized user, user video, sounds of the environment and other legal information. The information gathered could also be sent to one or more authorized users.
A report published in 2014 ensured that the lock of activation (Activation Lock) of iOS 7 reduced dramatically the theft of iPhone. Supposedly, the thieves would not be willing to take the risk posed to steal a phone that could not sell in the future. If Apple includes this function in the version official of iOS, without be necessary make use of the jailbreak, is likely that them thefts of iPhone still fall more, something totally understandable.
As we always say, that a patent is registered does not mean that we we will see in a device in the future, but it helps to know in which direction a company works. In my opinion, is something that Yes would have to include in a future iOS version. And not only would have that make it only Apple, if not all the manufacturers of phones mobile or of its software. What is this type of criminals not come out with it and earn money with what is not theirs.
