"new security feature" "warning"
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this post was submitted on 08 Nov 2024
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I guess if you have the 10 seconds to do so, you could invoke the operating system hard reboot function, which at least on Android is pressing and holding power and volume up for 10 seconds. I don't know what it is on the iPhone.
Edit: Too bad there's not some sort of haptic to let you know that it accepted the command before it shuts down though.
Long press of power and volume up for a few seconds puts you into BFU.
Does it or does it just simply disable biometrics but leave it an AFU? I would hope that if it's going to disable the biometrics, that it would put it in BFU. But I do not know.
I don’t know how it works under the hood, but from a user perspective it behaves like it’s in BFU. Biometrics disabled, phone code required.
Yeah, don't get me wrong. Disabling the biometrics and requiring the pin is a good step. But I would like to see somebody test it to figure out whether it actually goes into BFU mode or not.
The police could just ask Apple, it isn't like they are going to have some secret reboot process that they would hide from the police.
And what would Apple be able to do about it? They don’t have your password*, so they’ll be just as unable to decrypt the device as the police.
*you can give them your password via iCloud I believe but you don’t have to
I'm not saying apple will do anything about it, just that they will let the cops know what is causing the reboots if asked.
Phones that are repeatedly attempted to be unlocked auto hard reset. Been a feature for years.
This is not for devices where the pin has been entered incorrectly too many times. This is for devices that the police have seized and are awaiting forensics to pull data from.