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Apple is researching ways to allow multiple users to benefit from Touch ID, or similar biometric systems, while keeping the protection of the current secure enclave. Apple's current T2 security processor Apple's T2 security processor is based around a secure enclave which stores biometric data about a user. Whether that user is unlocking their Mac, or making a purchase, the secure enclave is asked to confirm that they are who they say they are. Without divulging any of the stored data, the T2 processor can confirm or deny a request. So the Mac or the retailer has the cert...

  Apple is researching ways to allow multiple users to benefit from Touch ID, or similar biometric systems, while keeping the protection of the current secure enclave. Apple's T2 security processor is based around a secure enclave which stores biometric data about a user. Whether that user is unlocking their Mac, or making a purchase, the secure enclave is asked to confirm that they are who they say they are. Without divulging any of the stored data, the T2 processor can confirm or deny a request. So the Mac or the retailer has the certainty they need to proceed, without the user's privacy ...

Future iOS devices may allow multiple users to each have their own passcodes "Provision of domains in secure enclave to support multiple users," is a patent, newly granted to Apple, which is very specifically about securely allowing more than one user to use a device. That could mean Macs as much as it could iOS. Apple even refers to "both single user mobile computing devices and multi-user laptop and desktop computing devices." Given that the Mac already has multi-user support, though, this patent's more likely aim is to bring that functionality to iOS devices. And above all else, to do so ...

  Apple is researching a development of its Secure Enclave technology to securely allow multiple users to share one iPhone or iPad without revealing private info to the other users. "Provision of domains in secure enclave to support multiple users," is a patent, newly granted to Apple, which is very specifically about securely allowing more than one user to use a device. That could mean Macs as much as it could iOS. Apple even refers to "both single user mobile computing devices and multi-user laptop and desktop computing devices." Given that the Mac already has multi-user support, though,...