iPhones Seized by Cops Are Rebooting, and No One’s Sure Why
iPhones Seized by Cops Are Rebooting, and No One’s Sure Why
Cops in Detroit are sending out a warning about what they suspect is a new security feature in iOS 18.
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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.