Since Siri via my HomePod recognizes my voice, when I ask her to unlock my basement door why does she say that I need to unlock my iPhone first? Would this be because voice recognition is not considered reliable?
HomePod, 15
Thanks BDAqua,
I think it might be possible, but I fail to see how it might be easy unless it was my wife who already knows how to unlock the basement door. We do have several security cameras around, so it might not be worth it for someone to break in, hide a recording device or a microphone. Then trigger that device to broadcast, while they were near the basement door. It would be much simpler to break the window beside the door and reach in and unlock it. If Apple would allow me to sign away my rights to sue in order to use voice authentication via Siri for specific situations I would gladly do that for the basement door situation.
No, it's a security feature. Because without authenticating into your device, anyone could ask to unlock the door.
So, why is voice recognition not considered authentication? Is a voice print less reliable than a fingerprint?
Couldn't someone easily record your voice for playback?
Someday every crook will have a parabolic Mic to collect voice logins from far away to everything! ;)
Using Siri to unlock doors
