"There is an apparently new iOS 18 security feature that reboots iPhones that haven’t been unlocked in a few days, frustrating police by making it harder to break into suspects’ iPhones

Apple added “inactivity reboot” code in iOS 18.1 that triggers iPhones to restart after they’ve been locked for four days"

  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world
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    7 个月前

    Last week it was theorized that iOS 18 would reboot after 24 hours if it lost connection from the internet. That would be even better, since it would fuck people trying to work around FindMy.

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        7 个月前

        Thieves, authorities, crazy ex, anyone.

        FindMy will allow you to remotely secure or wipe the device. But the device needs to be online to get that request to lock or wipe from iCloud.

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          7 个月前

          Surely the user could just take out the SIM card and that would prevent it from ever connecting to the internet?

          Sure it could connect over Wi-Fi still but the chances of it being next to a network it has connected to before are very slim.

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      7 个月前

      Hopefully they’ve implemented it in a way that the phone can still get wiped before initial unlock.