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most common way of course is to set up a passcode simple four-digit passcode or more complex one if you want this is something you do dozens of times a day to unlock and get access to your phone unfortunately some people find that's too cumbersome and they don't set it up in fact in our research about half of smartphone customers do not set up a passcode on the device and they really really should that's why the team has worked so hard on a brand new technology to make this easy and fun to do and it's called touch ID touch ID uses a key you have with you everywhere you go your finger or more specifically your fingerprint which is unique to each of us it reads your fingerprint at an incredibly detailed level that's because of a brand new sensor called the touch ID sensor it's a touch capacitive sensor it's super thin 170 microns thin that's just thicker than a human hair yet it's very high resolution 500 pixels per inch it scans through the outer layers of your epidermis right to the inner live layers to get a better image of your actual fingerprint it can teach it about more than one finger if you want maybe use it right-handed and left-handed and no matter what what orientation used to train it you can turn your finger and don't have to worry about it because and read it any orientation but probably one of the most brilliant things the team did was where they put this new sensor right into the home button that we use all day long this is really smart the home button still has a tactile switch just like before so it works the way you're used to but it also now includes the touch ID sensor around it is the stainless-steel detection ring so the sensor knows when to read your fingerprint just by the fact that your fingers on the button you don't even have to click it on top of its protected the sapphire lens it's hard it also provides a better image down on the touch ID sensor now touch ID has been built deeply into iOS 7 the team has made it really fun and easy for you to teach your iPhone 5s about your fingerprint and once you do you can simply touch the home button to unlock your phone and it's something that's a joy to do all day every day and levon always and since its built in the team's also figured out how to use it to make iTunes purchases which of course has a different passcode but you can just use your same finger to authenticate music applications books TV shows and movies all with just a touch of your finger it wouldn't be a killer apple technology without a great video to tell us all about it iPhone 5s is almost refined iPhone to date it is meticulously designed engineered and crafted but it's the remarkable innovation inside the iPhone 5s that sets a new precedent it's not just rampant technology for technology's sake every single component every process has been considered and measured to make sure that it's truly useful and that it actually enhances the users experience this care this consideration extends to how we protect all of the important information that you actually carry with you on your iPhone it's what led us to create touch ID your fingerprint is one of the best passwords in the world it's always with you and no two are exactly alike so it made perfect sense to create a simple seamless way to use it as a password with just a touch of your home button the touch ID sensor quickly read your fingerprint and automatically unlocks your phone you can even use it to authorize purchases through our stores for music movies TV shows apps and books setting up touch ID to recognize your fingerprint is easy and every time you use it it gets better at meeting you print it can read multiple fingerprints and read them in any orientation the technology within touch ID is some of the most advanced hardware and software we put in any device the button itself is made from sapphire crystal one of the clearest hardest materials available this protects the sensor and acts as a lens to precisely focus it on your finger the steel ring surrounding the button detects your finger and tells touch ID to start reading your printing the sensor uses advanced capacitive touch to take in essence a high-resolution image of a fingerprint from the sub Pepa dermal layers of your skin it then intelligently analyzes this information with a remarkable degree of detail and precision it categorizes your print by one of three basic types arch loop or world it Maps individual details in the ridges that are smalls in the human eye can see and even inspects minor variations in Ridge Direction caused by pores and edge structures touch ID uses all this to provide the most accurate match in a very high level of security all fingerprint information is encrypted and stored inside the secure Enclave in our new a7 chip here it is locked away from everything else accessible only by the touch ID sensor it's never available to the software and it's never stored on Apple servers or back to the iCloud touch ID defines the next step of how you use your iPhone making something as important as security so effortless so simple we believe that technology is at its very best at its most empowering when it simply disappears so that is touch ID the third of our four thinking technologies in the iPhone 5s