The Airpods They are one of Apple's most interesting products, not only for their quality and design, but for synchronization with the rest of the ecosystem products. Do not have to open the phone and be able to connect them just to get them out of the case, handling them tactilly thanks to their sensors.
However, this can generate a security problem that I had not thought before, and that after trying it, it has left me quite worried, since anyone could get information that I had previously hidden, or so I believed. So let's see how it is done.
Security failure with the airpods and an iPhone
Imagine that we are at a friend's house, he goes to sleep and leaves his iPhone in sight. Although we try to read notifications or call someone, as well as using Siri in general, he will tell us that we must first unlock the iPhone, something normal, and that we can obviously configure if we do not want it, although that is another issue.
But what happens if that person has active security measures and we put on their airpods? He will not ask us for any type of code to connect to the iPhone, and will do it automatically.
Once connected, we will only have to press the headset that Activate Siri and Ask you to read certain notifications (It does not work with all), or simply calling a contact, as well as sending a message, which although in most WhatsApp versions it does not work, it will do it if we only ask Send a messagethen it will send it through SMS (if it does not have iPhone) or Imessage if the other person also has iPhone.
These are some of the many things that we can simply do with the another person's headphoneseven if we don't have his mobile nearby, and he has taken him to sleep, but he has left the headphones in another room.
After trying to modify this, I have not managed to see an option that blocks this type of actions, so I doubt it can be configured, offering a security problem, in my opinion, important, since I can think of many things, and none is good, unless you find a backpack with an iPhone and Airpods, since you can call some contact and try, thus, return the phone.
Another type of actions such as asking for a sum or that tells you a joke also work, but obviously they are not so interesting, although we have others like Put an alarmwhich at the level of spending a joke can be curious. Surely there are a thousand actions that do not occur to us, but that could also be done.
And you, did you know this? Have you ever thought about it? The truth is that I do not, and see that I use a lot with my airpods. If you try it, leave us a comment with the apps in which it works and which do not, and we will see if Apple solves it in future versions, at least asking the owner if you prefer to continue like this (we understand comfort), or want to improve security not accepting these commands.
