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How? The secure enclave doesn't have any trusted input/output capabilities other than the power button double click and biometrics. The PIN isn't entered via these.



There’s a thing which I know very little about personally but have hearsay of its existence where it rips control from XNU and takes over touch input for this


Also, can't you just get the pin from the accelerometer? (It may take a few tries, but this was shown by academics a while back.)


My understanding is that sensors are disabled during this




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