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Comment by jsjohnst | Hacker News Reader

Apple does have one mitigation I’m surprised not to see listed. The keyboard changes color when it’s a system dialog asking for your password. That’s not something an App can do to my knowledge, but I could be wrong. Any idea why it wasn’t mentioned?

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You sure about that? The screenshots in the article don't show the keyboard being a different color with a legitimate pop-up.

On my iPhone it does. It goes from a light grey (normal keyboard) to a dark grey (system password entry keyboard).

Try it in a few more apps it's the choice of the app dev so basically random.

Not that a user should have to know "only enter your password into the black keyboard", which can also be faked mind.

Yes, I know about UIKeyboardAppearance and how apps can influence that, this isn't what I am talking about. When I say "system password" dialog, I am talking specifically about requests for my iCloud/iTunes/phone password. Unfortunately I can't seem to trigger it now, but I distinctly remember in the past the keyboard looked slightly different than the dark keyboard theme. Maybe I am wrong!

This is just a part of ios. There's a light keyboard and a dark keyboard, and apps can request to use the dark one. The reddit app, for instance, requests the dark keyboard when you're in "night mode."

That's only if you're using a third-party keyboard, I think.

I’m using the stock Apple keyboard (used to use alternatives, but not anymore) and as mentioned the keyboard significantly darkens it’s grey when it’s asking for a system password.

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