A patent from Apple could prevent others from peeing at the iPhone's screen

Privacy is very important on our smartphones, as these devices contain a lot of personal and sensitive data, but the violation of privacy does not necessarily mean by hacking or stealing your data, someone may try to peek when you use the iPhone, whether you are on a bus or train or even when Be with friends.

You may find that others' attempt to peek at the screen of your iPhone device is a simple matter, but Apple believes the opposite, as it believes that privacy is an acquired right of its users and does not allow any violation of it even if it is small, and this is why the American company registered a patent of its own known as Gaze -Dependent Display Encryption, which provides complete privacy and prevents curious people from peeing at the screen of your iPhone.

What is Gaze-Dependent Display Encryption?

In short, the technology identifies which part of the screen you look at and then blocks the remaining part of the screen and makes it blurry, and in this way prevents others from peeking out what you see on the iPhone screen.

The new technology works by determining the position of the eye, its angle and its distance through the front camera of the device to determine the part you are looking at and the rest of the screen becomes unclear, and according to Apple, the parts of the screen will include content visually identical to the rest of the screen, but this content will be fake and not real until it is not A peeper realizes that there is some kind of encryption visible when looking at the iPhone's screen.

Similar solutions

This is not the first time that we see a solution for unwanted people who look at the screen of our smartphones, there are some other solutions currently in place that help the user to protect privacy and prevent others from peeking out the screen of his device, such as the privacy sticker, which you put on the screen of the device, blocking vision and darkening The screen is for anyone trying to look at the device indirectly.

BlackBerry is the other company launched the Privacy Shade application, which allows the user to darken most of the screen and leave the part that he sees without misleading or darkening, but what makes the solution for Apple is the best, that the solution for BlackBerry asks the user to move his finger over the part to be read and the rest of the screen is blocked This may attract a lot of attention to you from others.

Finally, the iPhone has sensors that are able to know whether you are looking at the device or not, but determining which area to look at on the screen seems like a big obstacle for Apple, so will the company succeed in overcoming this matter, this is what we will know in the future.

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