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Does anyone actually know how does touch id actually authenticates with apple ids as well? As in how does the login process for the App Store works?

I suspect it stores our app store icloud credentials in the secure enclave in the A7 and when a fingerprint match is found it accesses the icloud credentials and logs in to the app store with them. This is my best guess on how they could do it securely, i ve looked all over google for the past 2 hours and couldnt find any mention about how this feature actually works, and apple's support pages arent any help

iPhone 5s, iOS 7.0.4

Posted on Nov 17, 2013 12:14 PM

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Nov 28, 2013 2:01 PM in response to thisismyusernameok

As far as I'm aware, your iPhone stores your Apple ID credentials in a secure place in system memory, with a good level of encryption. When a user is asked to authorize a purchase, it will ask for your fingerprint. When this is read and is authorized with the information already kept about your print in the sealed off section in the A7 processor, the phone is given authorization to use your credentials to authorize a purchase on the store. Nothing at all to do with your print is ever sent over for use in the OS itself, only a simple 'Yes' or 'No' as to weather the given information matches up.

Does anyone actually know how does touch id actually authenticates with apple ids as well? As in how does the login process for the App Store works?

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