She Sent Her iPhone to Apple. Repair Techs Uploaded Her Nudes to Facebook (2021)

Post by dylan604 » Sun, Sep 28, 2025, 5:26 PM UTC

_fat_santa wrote: post #30

dreamcompiler wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> can only be opened with FaceID and no passcode backup So it can easily be opened by someone who restrains you and holds your phone in front of your face then?

I had a friend a few years back that got taken for close to $50k and this feature would have prevented it. - He was at a bar and got to talking to one girl. - There was another girl watching him and his phone and figured out his passcode. The bar was dimly lit so FaceID didn't always work and at some point he entered his passcode and she saw. - They all left to "go back to their place" and in the process the girls st…

Post by SoftTalker » Sun, Sep 28, 2025, 5:27 PM UTC

dreamcompiler wrote: post #23

_fat_santa wrote: post #20

Unfortunately this occurred in 2016, long before they added "repair mode" in iOS 17. But I should mention, I was in the middle of writing a comment along the lines of "apple really needs to add a repair mode to iOS" before going to look it up and realizing that it's actually been there since iOS 17. For me this highlights another issue with iOS which is it has many awesome features that you just won't know about unle…

> can only be opened with FaceID and no passcode backup So it can easily be opened by someone who restrains you and holds your phone in front of your face then?

Post by HPsquared » Sun, Sep 28, 2025, 5:31 PM UTC

abtinf wrote: post #25

_fat_santa wrote: post #20

Unfortunately this occurred in 2016, long before they added "repair mode" in iOS 17. But I should mention, I was in the middle of writing a comment along the lines of "apple really needs to add a repair mode to iOS" before going to look it up and realizing that it's actually been there since iOS 17. For me this highlights another issue with iOS which is it has many awesome features that you just won't know about unle…

> iOS which is it has many awesome features that you just won't know about unless you're a techie that keeps up with the news Probably the single most useful hidden feature, valuable to parents everywhere, is “Guided Access” mode available through accessibility settings. It lets you lock the screen to a single app or disable touch entirely (or even by custom region), so that you can hand your device to a kid without…

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Sep 28, 2025, 5:35 PM UTC

graemep wrote: post #57

falcor84 wrote: post #28

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The word "easily" is doing some work here, as your scenario is already in the area of "rubber-hose cryptanalysis", where passcodes don't stay private for long either.

Except physical assault leaves evidence.

Post by socalgal2 » Sun, Sep 28, 2025, 5:37 PM UTC

Aaargh20318 wrote: post #37

socalgal2 wrote: post #31

A "privacy first" company would never ask for passcodes. They still do in 2025. Just goes to show that Apple's privacy claims are theater.

Every time I had to send in an iDevice for repair they required me to factory-reset it before sending it in. They never asked me for passcodes.