That means it’s harder for phone thieves, too.

"There is an apparently new iOS 18 security feature that reboots iPhones that haven’t been unlocked in a few days, frustrating police by making it harder to break into suspects’ iPhones

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Apple added “inactivity reboot” code in iOS 18.1 that triggers iPhones to restart after they’ve been locked for four days"

  • LinkA
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    6 hours ago

    Surely the user could just take out the SIM card and that would prevent it from ever connecting to the internet?

    Sure it could connect over Wi-Fi still but the chances of it being next to a network it has connected to before are very slim.

    • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      6 hours ago

      That’s my point. People try to keep stolen or confiscated phones from reaching the cloud. Many have proposed a faster auto-reboot for phones that aren’t online. Maybe reducing it from 72 hours to 12 or 24.

        • JWBananas@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          6 hours ago

          The last 3 generations of iPhone released in the US do not have physical SIM card slots at all.

          • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            39 minutes ago

            Yeah, and a bunch of other manufacturers were quick to follow.

            I’m still on the fence of whether or not this is a good thing. In this scenario, it’s a pro. Cops or crooks can’t remove a SIM if there is no physical SIM.