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Apple indeed added a feature called "inactivity reboot" in iOS 18.1

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Re: Apple indeed added a feature called "inactivity reboot" in iOS 18.1

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Post by avidiax »

xenospn wrote: post #2

Oh that’s so simple and clever! So the cops keep all phones plugged in and unlocked at all times to prevent them from re-locking?

If they can't keep them unlocked, they at least don't want them to reboot, since that puts the phone in a less exploitable state.

If they never reboot, then the phone can just be kept powered and isolated for years if need be to find an exploit in the AFU (after first-unlock) decrypted but screenlocked state.

Re: Apple indeed added a feature called "inactivity reboot" in iOS 18.1

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Post by oever »

And web apps on iOS cannot prevent the screen from dimming and locking, making many type of applications impossible to develop as PWA:

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=254545

It's a bug that's been open for years and happens to be beneficial for the app store.

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Post by hollerith »

oever wrote: post #5

And web apps on iOS cannot prevent the screen from dimming and locking, making many type of applications impossible to develop as PWA: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=254545 It's a bug that's been open for years and happens to be beneficial for the app store.

Unless I'm missing something, it also happens to benefit the average user for a random web site not to be able to prevent the phone's screen from locking.

Re: Apple indeed added a feature called "inactivity reboot" in iOS 18.1

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Post by SigmundA »

hollerith wrote: post #8
oever wrote: post #5

And web apps on iOS cannot prevent the screen from dimming and locking, making many type of applications impossible to develop as PWA: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=254545 It's a bug that's been open for years and happens to be beneficial for the app store.

Unless I'm missing something, it also happens to benefit the average user for a random web site not to be able to prevent the phone's screen from locking.

The bug states that it works in the browser just not in PWA's.

So random websites can actually do this, but not websites the users specifically installs as a PWA, which is kinda the opposite of what you would expect.

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