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SINGAPORE – Signing up and exiting with SafeEntry is now as easy as tapping on the back of your phone, if you happen to be an iPhone user and have downloaded the latest iOS 14 software update.
This SafeEntry hack uses an iPhone app called Siri Shortcuts, which allows users to activate certain tasks with shortcuts like a tap or a voice command.
Users simply have to open the SingPass app on their iPhone to activate Siri Shortcuts for SafeEntry, before also activating another feature called Back Tap.
The final step is to assign, with Back Tap, the double tap and triple tap actions to sign in and out with SafeEntry respectively. This means that instead of having to manually open the SingPass app each time, users only need to double-tap the back of their phones to call the SafeEntry QR scanner, or triple-tap to pay.
The ubiquitous SafeEntry is Singapore’s national digital registration system that records the identification numbers and mobile phone numbers of people visiting venues, in order to aid in contact tracing efforts.
Popular local blogger Lee Kin Mun, better known as mrbrown, posted the SafeEntry iOS 14 “Pro Tip” on Facebook on Sunday (September 20). His post had attracted more than 1,300 likes and 4,300 shares as of 8pm Monday.
Lee noted that users can also configure their iPhones to perform the same task in response to a voice command to the iPhone’s virtual assistant Siri.
“You can say that to Siri, yes,” Lee wrote in a reply to one user. “Or customize it to respond to ‘Siri, scan me lah.’
The Siri Shortcuts app was among a number of features that received updates with Apple’s iOS 14 software update, which was released last Wednesday. Apple typically releases new software updates to coincide with the release of a new phone model, but the iOS 14 update is available for users of the iPhone 6S or later.
However, the SafeEntry hack only works on newer iPhones with the Back Tap feature, starting with the iPhone 8, which was released in 2017. The phone must also be unlocked for the hack to work.
Other new features that came with iOS 14 include widgets, a translation app that supports 11 initial languages, and a security feature that alerts users to compromised passwords.
But Android users shouldn’t feel left out when it comes to SafeEntry. A widget with the TraceTogether app opens the SafeEntry menu with a single tap.
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