Safari 14 brings Face ID and Touch ID support for web sign-ins

The latest iteration of Apple’s in-house browser – Safari 14 – adds support for Face ID and Touch ID for website log-ins. What this means is you no longer have to rely on password managers, or remember a complex combination of username and password to access a service on the web.

“Added a Web Authentication platform authenticator using Face ID or Touch ID, depending on which capability is present,” Apple mentions in the beta release notes of Safari 14 for iOS 14 and macOS 11 aka Big Sur. This will be facilitated by the new Web Authentication API that arrives with Safari.

Once it goes live, you can log-in to websites using your biometric signature via iPhones, iPads, or a Mac that comes with either a Face ID or Touch ID module. To check out the technical details as to how it will be implemented in Safari 14, head over to Apple’s developer website where WebKit Engineer Jiewen Tan explains it in detail.

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Safari on Mac is getting faster and safer with new upgrade

macOS is getting tons of new features with its Messages updates, its new version of Maps, the Mac Catalyst, and Safari is also getting better.

According to the latest WWDC 2020 presentation, Safari is now 50% faster than the Google Chrome browser. It has also improved privacy with more visibility in how each site you visit tries to track you. You get access to this information through the Privacy icon. Safari also tracks your passwords, and it makes sure none were compromised in a data breach.

Safari is also getting extensions; each one has its own button on the bar, and each extension has granular approval controls where you can choose which sites each extension can work with, giving them access: just for the one day, just for the site or to allow the extension all the time. You also get a fresh, cleaner customizable start page with redesigned tabs that are more elegant and powerful. You can also add native translation capabilities right into Safari.

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Apple may give full Apple Pencil support and built-in translator to Safari

It seems that Apple may be working to give Safari some new features. According to information found on an early build of iOS 14 obtained by 9to5Mac, we may soon get a built-in translator and full Apple Pencil support on websites.

The new features that may be coming with iOS 14 include a built-in translator and Apple Pencil support to the Safari browser. The built-in translator would let users get automatic translations, as it would detect the language to translate the content correctly. It would also switch languages between the original content and the translated text without the need of reloading the page.

This may be the first step for a bigger plan, since Apple may want to expand this feature across its system. These translations would be processed locally with the Neural Engine, meaning that it would still work without an internet connection and wouldn’t send data to Apple. The new Apple Pencil support would also help to browse, scroll, draw, and more in Safari.

Source 9to5Mac

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Pocketnow Daily: Google Pixel 5 and 4a Features LEAKED on Android 11?!(video)

On today's Pocketnow Daily, we talk about the new feature that may arrive with Android 11, the possibility of new AirPods Pro Lite and more

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Widespread Safari crashes reported on iPhones and Macs, here’s a temporary workaround

This is not a drill, prank or isolated incident. Browsing the web on iOS devices and Mac computers using the default Safari app can result in nagging crashes over and over again. Reopening the browser doesn’t resolve the mysterious underlying glitch, which apparently has something to do with search suggestions.No, simply changing the search engine can’t fix the epidemic bug either, but the good news is you can contain the malfunction by turning off Safari suggestions. That’s obviously merely a temporary workaround, the only other thing that kind of works is not clearing your cached ...

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Mozilla sunsets Firefox OS smartphones, gives rise to Focus ad blocker

Mozilla imaged an entirely new development medium for those who were interested in the Firefox OS 2.5, but weren’t willing to take the complete dive: by packaging an easy-to-install Android launcher and sending it right to you. Turns out it’s not going to be of much use to those devs anymore. In fact, the platform is now dead.At least on the smartphone side. Mozilla senior vice president of connected devices Ari ...

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Browser wars: Android vs iOS (Video)

For many of us, web browsing is the heart and soul of our mobile usage. Browsing web pages from a coffee shop on your phone or buying something from Amazon while waiting in line are what make modern smartphones so different from their ancestors. Mobile browsing today is not all that bad, fairly enjoyable, and actually pretty efficient.So how do the two most popular mobile platforms compare when it comes to mobile browsing?Ignoring all the third-party options available on both and not considering ...

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Pocketnow Weekly 093: NEVER SETTLE

The “flagship killer” that demands that you “NEVER SETTLE” breaks cover. The pioneer of the modern mobile browser shares his story. And at long last, Microsoft and Nokia finally consummate their love. We could have a feature segment, but with news this hot, do we really need one? Not with a guest like Stefan Constantinescu of TabDump to bring some flavor (and profanity) to the proceedings, that’s for sure. A word on the language of this episode: we’ve recently ditched the “Clean” content rating that’s been with us from the start of ...

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Creator of iPhone Safari browser shares his experience

As much as many try to disregard the iPhone as being as important as it was to the mobile industry, how many of you actually remember what it was like to browse a website before the iPhone was launched. Apple touted the iPhone as being an internet communicator when it was announced, and a lot of that success came from the browser it announced in 2007. Today almost every mobile browser uses WebKit, which was the engine that powered mobile Safari, and which Apple was kind enough to open-source to the world, and one of its creators has decided to talk about his experience. Francisco Tolmasky ...

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Why doesn’t every browser do word wrapping?

Mobile devices used to be primarily portable email boxes with integrated calendar and contacts. In the early days, some of them may have included web browsers, but they were very primitive. Back then the Web was very complex, and designed for screens with resolutions of 800 by 600 and higher. To accommodate phones and PDAs a “new” web was invented, one that used a completely different protocol to address the concerns of much smaller screens, slower processors, and mobile data plans. None of which were anywhere close to what we have today. WAP & WML Continue reading »

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