While having biometrics for lock/unlock the app is good and practical, if we talk about encrypted note INSIDE bear is a different story!
…been force to have biometrics on encrypted notes destroy any sense to have note encrypted:
- someone who stole your device knowing your Mac app or iPhone app can change biometrics and access everything
- Having an iPad shared or simply unlocked expose to access
- many others example are possible… you get the point!
The point is that for encrypted note the biometrics should be protected by the encryption code inside the app not in setttings freely whiteout encrypted code confermation! Until the change of biometrics at least not ask iCloud password or different password from device, this is not a secure why to protect our stuff, also apple not send notification or mail about new biometrics register or a way to block that and apps not ask the code again after new registration biometrics!
Even apple note have this little trick, to ask password (that could be different from devices) for activating biometrics for unlock!
This is one of my biggest gripe with Bear. I want to use it as a journal as well, and keep some of my more private stuff, and then I have a shared iPad, these notes I don’t want accessible through biometrics, I want a custom password!
This option is even available in Apple Notes as well!
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I understand the other reasoning, but I have to tell you the above is not true. You can’t change the biometrics on macOS/iOS without knowing the master password.
That’s the point is easy to add a new biometrics, simply cooworking whit someone who see you digit the Mac code and registering a new temporary biometrics allow to access anything!
the use for encrypted should be very well stored in the app!
Take for example this one guy who was arrested for stole iPhone to unknown peoples by see them typing code, before he was able to access anything on device by changing biometrics, like personal journal, crypto address and others personal stuff, and the same problem could happen when you let someone around you just using your iPad and it’s easy to let them use the code… that’s the need to have a different password on personal stuff !
Or if for any reason you have to give your code whit your device at least You can protect your info until go to in other device and change the password!
And if read well I say knowing the device password!
I can agree that if you share your passcode (iOS) or password (macOS) with somebody, Bear, Apple Notes, and any Homebanking app using biometrics is not for you. You are free to prefer a more unhandy way to handle secure access to data, but I’m unsure we don’t want to support this at the moment.
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As previous poster mentioned, apple notes supports setting a custom password, that isn’t about the login password or face ID.
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Bear need this! …and of course encryption for attachments!
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