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Perhaps tie into bluetooth instead. If your Watch or iPhone goes out of range, lock the machine.
by ccheney 5y ago
Perhaps tie into bluetooth instead. If your Watch or iPhone goes out of range, lock the machine.
- poorman 5y agoPerhaps an accelerometer for when it's snatched quickly.
- toxik 5y agoShould actually be pretty easy to implement
- finnh 5y agoUnlox app does this - its primary feature is to use FaceID on an iPhone to unlock a mac, but it also has an AutoLock feature if said phone goes out of bluetooth range. The signal level threshold is configurable so you can keep it on a pretty short leash. (no relation, just a happy customer)
- cdubzzz 5y agoThat is intriguing -- but I don't love the "enter your computer password in the app" part. Can it be configured to _not_ do that -- i.e. only do the "AutoLock" part?
- finnh 5y agoI believe so, yes. you might need to do a temp password dance to get it configured initially, but after that "lock only" should work fine.
- 0x6A75616E 5y agoBetterTouchTool has a "Bluetooth LE device moved away".. Maybe that can detect Apple Watch moving away, and then lock or even shut down the computer.. EDIT: Confirmed. This works. In a few minutes, I was able to set it up so that if my watch moves about a meter away from the mac, it'll lock the screen. It supports any Bluetooth LE device.
- r00fus 5y agoI had moved away from BTT for a while but would come back for this. Awesome. This stuff should be in macOS core.