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How to Lock Specific iPhone Apps Behind Face ID or Your Passcode
Until recently, Apple did not offer a way to individually lock sensitive apps like Photos, and iPhone users had to resort to Screen Time’s App Limits as a workaround. Fortunately however that’s no longer the case, because you can now create an additional security barrier for any app on your iPhone using a shortcut action new to iOS 16.4.
Apple has added several new actions to the Shortcuts app, and the one that interests us here is Lock Screen. The Lock Screen action essentially allows you to set up a personal automation that automatically locks your iPhone when a specified app is opened.
Of course, this action should pose no access issues for you as the iPhone owner, but it does mean that anyone else trying to open the app first needs to pass facial authentication or enter your passcode even though your iPhone was unlocked when they tapped the app icon.
The following steps guide you through the process of setting up a personal automation that will instantly lock your iPhone when the app of your choosing is opened.
- Launch the Shortcuts app on your iPhone.
- Tap the Automation tab at the bottom of the screen.
- Tap the + button in the top-right corner, then tap Create Personal Automation.
- Scroll down and tap App.
- Make sure Is Opened is ticked on the next screen, then tap Choose.
- Select an app from the list, then tap Done.
- Tap Next, then tap the blue Add Action button on the next screen.
- Start typing “Lock Screen” into the text field and select Lock Screen when it appears in the results below, then tap Next.
- Toggle off the switch next to Ask Before Running.
- Tap Don’t Ask in the pop-up prompt, then tap Done.
Your personal automation is now complete and should automatically spring into action the next time you open the chosen app. For an extra security step, you may consider setting up the same Lock Screen action for the Shortcuts app as well.
Note that the same Lock Screen action can also be found in macOS 13.3, but bear in mind that there may be other ways to access the contents of a Mac app without launching it.
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‘Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)’ trailer takes us behind rock’s most iconic album covers
You might not know the name Hipgnosis, but you’ve definitely seen this creative duo’s work. You might even have copies of it in your house right now.
Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell, aka Hipgnosis (the G is silent, like lasagna), founded the design firm in the late ’60s. And along with later members (including Peter Christopherson of Throbbing Gristle), they created album covers for some of the biggest names of the 1970s. The most famous is Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon — triangle, rainbow, you know the one — but there are dozens and dozens more.
Anton Corbijn — the Dutch photographer and filmmaker, himself no stranger to creating visuals for iconic music — has clearly called in some serious favors to tell the story of Hipgnosis in his new documentary Squaring The Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis). The lineup of talking heads alone would be a Glastonbury for the ages: Paul McCartney, Roger Waters, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, Peter Gabriel, Noel Gallagher, and more.
Squaring The Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) opens in New York in June 7, in Los Angeles June 16, with a nationwide expansion on June 20.
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Vanessa Bauer puts ‘split’ with Joey Essex behind her on wild night out telling pals ‘I just want to have fun’
VANESSA Bauer looked sensational at a star-studded boxing premiere as she put her ‘split’ with Joey Essex behind her telling pals: ‘I just want to have fun.’
Joey is reportedly moving to Dubai after his romance with Dancing On Ice star Vanessa, 26, fizzled out.
Vanessa Bauer looked gorgeous at the ‘Big George Foreman’ gala screening at Ham Yard Hotel, London[/caption]
She looked like an ice queen in her shiny frock as she stepped out for a fun night out with her girls.[/caption]
All eyes were on Vanessa as she stepped out in a plunging ballgown which showed off her stunning figure.
The ITV star let her hair down at the Big George Foreman: The Miraculous Story of the Once and Future Heavyweight Champion of the World gala where she mixed with a room full of boxers on her girls’ night out.
Vanessa was joined by a glam list of stars at London’s plush The Ham Yard Hotel including Chris Eubank Jr, Harlem Eubank, the legendary Michael Watson MBE and Barry McGuigan MBE, as well as Love Island stars Jack Fowler, Toby Aromolaran, AJ Bunker, and Elle Spence.
Vanessa, who made it to the DOI finals with her ex ‘beau’ Joey who is now set to move to Dubai, said: “I’m just having a good time. I’m out with my girls to have fun.”
She certainly did, as she kicked up her heels for a night out with reality TV stars including TOWIE’S Saffron Lempriere, Kris Boyson and Abbie Quinnen.
Just last week Vanessa set tongues wagging after she stepped out to the Peter Pan and Wendy premiere with a mystery man.
Vanessa looked stunning in her fairytale mauve ballgown for the glam event at the Curzon Mayfair.
Her companion looked smart in a tweed three-piece suit, as the pair relaxed and enjoyed the star-studded evening together.
Her night out came as Joey is reportedly moving to Dubai.
The Towie star will embark on a new chapter abroad just weeks after landing second place on the ITV show with stunning Vanessa.
A source told MailOnline: “Joey absolutely loved his time performing with Vanessa on Dancing On Ice – he will treasure those memories forever.
“But for now, he’s focussing on work opportunities and beginning a new chapter in Dubai.
“He’s definitely single and while Vanessa means a lot to him because of the experience they shared on the show, they’re just friends now.”
Big George Forman is out only in cinemas now.
Love Island’s Elle Spence showed off her sensational figure in a tight white dress[/caption]
Vanessa joined celebrities at the VIP Gala Screening of “Big George Foreman” at the Ham Yard Hotel including Chris Eubank Jr[/caption]
He attended the event with his brothers Harlem Eubank and Joseph Eubank[/caption]
The legend that is Michael Watson MBE was there too[/caption]
AJ Bunker showed off her stunning figure in a little black dress[/caption]
She was joined by Love Island’s Toby Aromolaran[/caption]
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Report Details Turmoil Behind Apple’s AI Efforts, ‘Siri X,’ and Headset Voice Controls
The extensive paywalled report explains why former Apple employees who worked in the company’s AI and machine learning groups believe that a lack of ambition and organizational dysfunction have hindered Siri and the company’s AI technologies. Apple’s virtual assistant is apparently “widely derided” inside the company for its lack of functionality and minimal improvement over time.
By 2018, the team working on Siri had apparently “devolved into a mess, driven by petty turf battles between senior leaders and heated arguments over the direction of the assistant.” Siri’s leadership did not want to invest in building tools to analyse Siri’s usage and engineers lacked the ability to obtain basic details such as how many people were using the virtual assistant and how often they were doing so. The data that was obtained about Siri coming from the data science and engineering team was simply not being used, with some former employees calling it “a waste of time and money.”
Many Apple employees purportedly left the company because it was too slow to make decisions or too conservative in its approach to new AI technologies, including the large-language models that underpin chatbots like ChatGPT. Apple CEO Tim Cook personally attempted to persuade engineers who helped Apple modernize its search technology to stay at the company, before they left to work on large-language models at Google.
Apple executives are said to have dismissed proposals to give Siri the ability to conduct extended back-and-forth conversations, claiming that the feature would be difficult to control and gimmicky. Apple’s uncompromising stance on privacy has also created challenges for enhancing Siri, with the company pushing for more of the virtual assistant’s functions to be performed on-device.
Cook and other senior executives requested changes to Siri to prevent embarassing responses and the company prefers Siri’s responses to be pre-written by a team of around 20 writers, rather than AI-generated. There were also specific decisions to exclude information such as iPhone prices from Siri to push users directly to Apple’s website instead.
Siri engineers working on the feature that uses material from the web to answer questions clashed with the design team over how accurate the responses had to be in 2019. The design team demanded a near-perfect accuracy rate before the feature could be released.
Engineers claim to have spent months persuading Siri designers that not every one of its answers needed human verification, a limitation that made it impossible to scale up Siri to answer the huge number of questions asked by users. Similarly, Apple’s design team repeatedly rejected the feature that enabled users to report a concern or issue with the content of a Siri answer, preventing machine-learning engineers from understanding mistakes, because it wanted Siri to appear “all-knowing.”
In 2019, the Siri team explored a project to rewrite the virtual assistant from scratch, codenamed “Blackbird.” The effort sought to create a lightweight version of Siri that would delegate the creation of functions to app developers and would run on iPhones instead of the cloud to improve performance and privacy. Demos of Blackbird apparently prompted excitement among Apple employees owing to its utility and responsiveness.
Blackbird competed with the work of two senior leaders on the Siri team who were responsible for helping Siri understand and respond to queries. These individuals pushed for their own project, codenamed “Siri X,” for the 10th anniversary of the virtual assistant. The project simply aimed to move Siri’s processing on-device for privacy reasons, without the lightweight, modular functionality of Blackbird.
Hundreds of employees working on Blackbird were assigned to Siri X, which killed the ambitious project to make Siri more capable. Siri X was mostly completed in 2021 and now many of the voice assistant’s functions are processed locally.
Most recently, the group working on Apple’s mixed reality headset were reportedly disappointed by the demonstrations provided by the Siri team on how the virtual assistant could control the headset. At one point in the device’s development, the headset team considered building an alternative method for controlling the device using voice commands because Siri was deemed to be unsatisfactory.
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Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom leaves Breath of the Wild behind – hands-on preview
The exciting thing about The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is how it moves on from some of the most influential elements of Breath of the Wild.
I, like a lot of people, wondered how fresh Tears of the Kingdom could feel with a similar look on almost unchanged console hardware six years later, and it’s not just games in the same series Zelda has to compete with.
Skews of mechanics that Breath of the Wild popularised have been so comprehensively copied and adopted by action games the world over that they’re almost treated as default – kind of like how the Call of Duty control scheme stuck post-Modern Warfare 2 and has been ubiquitous ever since (I still shudder every time I think of pressing R3 to ADS).