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Apple might enable your iPhone with a secret way to activate 'panic mode'

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<p>If you carry around sensitive information on your iPhone, you could soon have one less reason to panic.</p><p>This week Business Insider (http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-patented-a-way-for-an-iphone-to-enter-panic-mode-when-unlocked-with-a-specific-finger-2015-11) reported that Apple has filed a patent to activate “panic mode” (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.) when unlocking your iPhone using a designated finger. Once your iPhone is unlocked using the secret panic mode method, the device would automatically limit access to personal information, reset the device altogether or activate preset actions.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3002613/apple-phone/apple-might-enable-your-iphone-with-a-secret-way-to-activate-panic-mode.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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