STEP UP YOUR SECURITY
Apple’s hardware protections
Although they’re both intended as convenience features, rather than security features, Face ID and Touch ID on iPhone and iPad are still very secure. That is due to their built-in Secure Enclave, an isolated hardware mechanism used to protect your fingerprint and facial data.
That doesn’t store that data as an image, but as ‘a mathematical representation’, which can’t be reverse engineered. That data is encrypted and is not sent to Apple, and it’s protected with a key that’s only available to the Secure Enclave itself.
That’s not the only method Apple uses to protect your data. The latest MacBook Pro, for example,
