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Yeah, I mind that. The solution is an effective police force. Maybe you've heard of it.
Yeah, please tells us more about your crime statistics in the states with this more "effective police", and how they're so much better than Europe/London...
A few times it actually worked when we weren't paying attention. Since I'm quite positive that nobody at Apple actually cares about what customers want or about their privacy and security, I'll just assume that this is more theater. Alternatively, perhaps they found that people who use touch/pin security are less likely to switch away from iOS or they buy more apps or something else that affects their bottom line.
So the device is locked because Activation Lock (Find My iPad) was enabled. But the root problem is the AppleID lockout. > Apple will not unlock her iCloud account... even though she has never forgotten her password. This is news to me. Why on earth is she not able to get back in if she knows the password? Did she perhaps enable 2FA when "modernizing" her AppleID and lose access to the 2nd factor? That's the only thi…
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Functionality like this is pretty good to deter theft. If thieves can't easily re-enable bricked devices, black market price is much lower, thus there's less incentive to mug people carrying those devices.
anti-theft should never impact user experience in such negative way. there are different ways to let the user be in control of this anti-theft technology which are much more user friendly and less prone to these kind of situations.
Of course, there must be a reasonable way for legitimate user to get his device back on. But reading the article, it looks like OP had quite a bad luck to loose all those recovery points :|
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Hmm, sounds like a fun DOS attack for frienemies. Personally, I'd rather take the risk. Is there a way to disable that?
If everything were backed up to iCloud (it is by default), you can literally throw your device in the trash, get a new one, log in and the new device will look and act like the old device with all of your data in check. The issue was that she had maxed out her icloud account and kept dismissing messages. The blame for that is shared between her parent not ponying up $10 a month for 2TB of storage that can be shared b…
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Yeah... because your email provider shuts down, and you keep using it for your apple account id, that is totally the fault of Apple.
Apple doesn't provide a way to transfer email account IDs.
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If everything were backed up to iCloud (it is by default), you can literally throw your device in the trash, get a new one, log in and the new device will look and act like the old device with all of your data in check. The issue was that she had maxed out her icloud account and kept dismissing messages. The blame for that is shared between her parent not ponying up $10 a month for 2TB of storage that can be shared b…
I know that, its the hardware I care about, its not cheap. And what if you buy used? There no papers to prove you bought it to Apple. And the fact there's a way for Apple to reset it, but not me, is also highly annoying. To me, the risk of setting a pin is greater than my phone getting stolen or my data being exposed. Also, $10 a month is a rediculous price, a kid will fill up 2TB within a year and then managing what…
In this case, you're talking about backing up what's on your device. No device has 2TB of data to backup.
If Apple exposed the file system unencrypted, that kind of defeats the whole purpose of encryption. How many people are really going to manually connect to a computer and backup?
What's the state of backing up Android? Can you just log in to a new Android phone and have all of your data - including app data restored?
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If a stolen device can be trivially reset there is no deterrent to stealing them or to buying stolen property.
This case (OP's) is an example of when a device reset could be required despite not having been stolen. What we're left with is the balancing act of deciding whether this example is an acceptable price to pay to achieve the deterrent effect you're describing. And I'd also be interested to know if it really does have a deterrent effect. Does anyone know if criminals really do avoid stealing iPads?
For which you would use the security questions that they avoided doing for spurious reasons...