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by aeontech 3186 days ago
It’s disabled until you enter your passcode again, correct, which is what you want. I am not sure what you thought I was saying? If you want to disable it permanently, you can do that in Settings, but doing that requires you to unlock the phone, at which point the adversary may take it and have free reign.
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What I'm saying is, if someone wants to simply disable TouchID, without also automatically calling the police by whom they are presently being held then the 5 click method is overkill.