iPhone 4 has pattern locking, but you can't use it

 Author: Japrax | at : Monday, February 28, 2011 | Category : iPhone  

 

Does the screen above look familiar to you? That’s supposedly the famous ‘nine-dot pattern lock option’ of Android, but how come it’s on an iPhone? This thing is supposedly ‘uniquely’ for Android, it’s been there ever since the G1. Apparently the iPhone also has this feature on an app, but only used by Apple internally.

What you’re looking at here is one of several screens obtained by 9 to 5 Mac, allegedly showing a version of Apple’s employee-only AppleConnect app with support for pattern locking to keep prying eyes out. It seems that the app enforces some minimum gesture length to constitute a secure lock, should be pretty long from what we know about Apple.

This is actually not available in any iOS build that you can find out there, even those betas. However, if you’ve already jailbreak your iPhone and wants to have some ‘Android’ coolness in your iPhone, then you should seek out for an app called ‘Android Unlock XT’.