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19th Apr 2016

Apple has figured out how many times a day you unlock your iPhone

Check yourself

Ellen Tannam

Most smartphones users are addicted to their devices.

Frequent checkers might never have stopped to think about how often they feel the need for notifications/validation on a daily basis.

So when analyst Ben Bajarin attended a security meeting at Apple HQ last week, he managed to discover the unlocking statistic for iPhones.

It’s 80 times a day, on average.

If you have, say, 12-hours a day of usage, that comes down to about once every ten minutes.

And that’s 29,200 times a year, in total.

Apple shared the stats because it wanted to illustrate that using fingerprint ID is much more efficient than inputting a PIN every time you unlock your device.

We clearly all need it.

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