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You want to be able to launch apps without unlocking your phone? Slippery slope.
by freeplay 24d ago
You want to be able to launch apps without unlocking your phone? Slippery slope.
- throwaway894345 24d agoIf the app doesn't have any sensitive information, then yes. We already do this with home screen widgets today, so clearly there's no real barrier.
- zamalek 24d agoApps can have vulnerabilities (intentional or not). It's a contrived example, but maybe some weather app has a custom icon feature, which means you can then browse photos by opening it on the lock screen and going to that setting.
- throwaway894345 23d agoWidgets can't have vulnerabilities?
- zamalek 23d agoThey can, but scope and features increase surface area: their limited functionality intrinsically limits that.
- throwaway894345 20d agoWidgets are just apps with limited scope and surface area. There’s no reason they can’t apply this to the weather app which already has (or should have) a limited scope.
- kevin_thibedeau 24d agoCamera app does it.
- derefr 24d agoNope; the lockscreen camera is actually an entirely different app, or not-quite-app thing. (Note what happens when you open the camera roll in the lockscreen camera.)