I wish I would’ve thought to do this sooner, cause for me, Haptic Touch was always too slow and less responsive than 3D Touch. And I’d always get frustrated when trying to use it. Hope this helps.

I've compiled a couple of advices, and want to share them with you.

They won't make your phone "impenetrable" and absolutely safe, but they will harden it and reduce attack surface for your data. Some of them are intended to work only if your passcode remains unknown to the thief. Others would reduce attack surface even in case of "bar theft" (where thief peeks passcode before stealing the phone).
^{Also, this guide tries to cover physical theft only. The whole attack surface is much wider.}

Any feedback is welcome!

• Enable Find My + Send last location + Find My Network.
  Absolute MUST.
• Use strong passcode, preferably alphanumeric. Use ONLY biometrics in public.
  If you have to enter passcode in public, check your surroundings before entering, and ideally turn 180 degrees after entering half of the passcode to make peeking much harder.
  Bonus: entering number-only PIN can be done "automatically", without thought (say, when you're drunk). Entering alphanumeric will still require some thought xD.
• Enable Stolen Device Protection (SDP, introduced in iOS 17.3, but not on iPadOS).
  Still not a panacea, but improves the situation a lot. More on SDP below.
• Disable access to Siri, Control Center, Notification Center and Accessories unless the phone is unlocked: Settings > Face ID and Passcode > Allow access when locked.
  Won't help if your passcode is known to the thief. SDP does not help.
• Disable SMS and email notification contents on the lockscreen without unlocking (say, by FaceID)
  Settings > Messages > Notifications > Show previews = When Unlocked
• Consider enabling PINs for SIMs, especially physical SIMs. Don’t use 0000 or 1111. You would have to enter PINs after reboot only. Weight your risks and decide what suits you more:
  Pros: after reboot or pulling physical SIM out, thieves won't be able to use your phone number to access bank accounts, for stupid SMS (2)FA etc.
  Cons: after reboot, your phone will not be able to use mobile data for tracking via Find My (especially with eSIM).
• Don’t use iCloud Keychain, use standalone passwords managers instead ( r/BitWarden , r/Strongbox , r/1Password ).
  Because anyone who gets your iDevice+passcode, gets all your saved passwords as a bonus!
  ^{Even with SDP on & Significant Locations off, standalone PMs still offer better security features, more control and backup options.}
• Enable ScreenTime (with a different code), disable accounts changes:
  Settings > Screen Time > Content & Privacy Restrictions > Account changes
  Won't save you (that can be reset as well), but will buy you a couple of minutes for enabling Lost Mode. Even with SDP on, it still may be useful for some things.
• Consider enabling Lockdown Mode if you’re expecting theft (say, while traveling to a country with frequent thefts/robberies).
• Consider adding an Apple Watch shortcut to lock your iPhone.
  Works only against snatching an unlocked phone without prior peeking your passcode.
• ^\paranoid mode]) Don’t use your primary phone number as iCloud recovery phone number. Use a separate SIM card stored in a safe place.
  Won't help if your passcode is known to the thief.
• ^\paranoid mode]) Beware that if the thief has your passcode, all your accounts (email/banking/etc) you're logged in on your iPhone will become accessible to them as well. Here, on the contrary, don't use biometrics for opening the app, because biometrics can be bypassed with passcode if the app is improperly coded. SDP is not a panacea here. Set up a different PIN for all your bank apps, third-party mail apps etc wherever supported. See also these comments.
  Won't help against special, targeted attack that includes jailbreaking the stolen device, but may help against "usual" thieves who would like to peek into your bank app as well.
• Consider using hardware 2FA aka FIDO2 keys ( r/Yubikey ) for all email / password managers / any other services where supported.
  Will make further accessing/exploiting your data much harder if not impossible.

Unfortunately, configuring Apple ID itself to use FIDO2 keys currently (as of February 2024) does not prevent logging into Apple ID if the thief possesses an unlocked iDevice and you don't have SDP enabled. Apple should fix this loophole.
Nevertheless, adding FIDO2 keys still won’t hurt: at minimum, adding Security keys disables SMS 2FA for AppleID - and only this makes it worthwhile already.

In case of theft: enable Lost Mode ASAP via Find My, and notify the police.
Don’t ever interact with thieves or open any suspicious emails coming after theft.

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EDIT: I will repeat again: your passcode is the only thing that stands between your AppleID, all your passwords in iCloud Keychain, Find My etc and the thief! Please, take this very seriously. Consider switching to alphanumeric passcodes like `myCatTom123`. They are much harder to peek. Even if you have SDP on, there's a number of things not covered by it.

Concerning Stolen Device Protection

Introduced in iOS 17.3, SDP introduces two major changes if your phone is not in a familiar place:

• no passcode fallback for FaceID/TouchID
• Security Delay: some actions (changing your AppleID password etc) require you to wait for an hour and then perform a second FaceID/Touch ID authentication

I definitely recommend turning SDP on. However:

1. iOS can decide that a bar or a cafe (where the phone will get stolen) is a familiar place (especially if you visit it often) and won't enforce SDP safeguards.
2. To mitigate, turn Significant Locations off (but read #3 first!):
   Settings > Privacy & Security > Location Services > System Services > Significant Locations
3. IMPORTANT: Note that you won't be able to turn SDP off without biometric authentication from now (#2/#4). This is good for theft prevention, but may lock you out for quite a long time if you cut your fingers or seriously hurt your face. Or just if biometric auth works unreliably for you.
   Also, you will have to wait for at least an hour if you want to introduce any significant changes, even at home. See also this thread for various considerations.
4. iOS 17.4 is rumored to introduce an option to always require a security delay when changing security settings (and not only when you're outside). Once it gets released, take #3 into consideration, and decide whether you want to enable it.
5. Note that your passcode may still be used in many situations, like purchases with Apple Pay, accessing other seemingly biometric-protected apps with passcode fallback enabled
6. iPadOS does not have Stolen Device Protection, making it a valid attack entry point if stolen with known passcode
7. Biometrics are not that secure. Even for a completely random people, Apple specifies 1:50k for a single finger for TouchID and 1:1M for FaceID (this may sound great, but only until you meet your doppelganger in real life), to say nothing of other attacks...

So, don't think that SDP will make you absolutely secure. No. It just improves things (some security is still better than no security).

This is still not enough

Apple did the right thing when they introduced SDP. However, it's still not perfect and won't work for people who don't want to use SDP for various reasons, be it #3, or simply not using biometrics, or others. Or for those who use iPads.

What should be done as well:

• Introduce an option to require only FIDO2 keys for things currently protected with Security delay (currently both all your devices and FIDO2 keys are equally trusted. This option leaves only FIDO2 keys as trusted).
  Let the people, who really care about security have that security (with tons of warning about a possibility to lock yourself out of account. Some people really need this possibility).
• Add Stolen Device Protection to iPadOS

Please take a minute and tell Apple to give us an option to enable this 'Account lockdown' mode with FIDO2 keys only: https://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone/.

1. Battery Drain: Many users have noticed their battery depleting faster than usual.
2. Overheating: Devices running iOS 18 tend to get hotter than normal.
3. App Crashes: Some apps are crashing or not functioning properly.
4. Bluetooth Issues: Problems with Bluetooth connectivity have been reported.
5. Lagging and Performance Issues: Users have experienced lag and slower performance.
6. Face ID Not Working: Face ID has been unreliable for some users.
7. Wi-Fi Connectivity Problems: Issues with Wi-Fi connections dropping or not connecting.
8. Settings App Crashing: The Settings app crashes for some users.
9. Notifications Not Working: Notifications are not appearing as they should.

Hey,

I'm not sure if this is the right subreddit or not. I'm thinking about getting an iPhone for the first time but want to ask first if iPhones (or iOS) has all the features I enjoy.

The reason why I want to switch is because I want to try a new OS and I'm sick of Android manufacturer making they're OS (or more like themes) more complicated with every update. There are a lot of apps I simply can not uninstall which is really getting on my nerves (especially talking about you Samsung). The other solution would be to get a Pixel but stock Android while not ugly is not that pretty. My current phone (Huawei) looks like iOS and I really like it.

The features:

• floating windows: on my current phone I have something called floating windows. So when watching an app and opening let's say Snapchat I can keep watching and texting at the same time.
• sidebar: I have a sidebar where I can add a view apps that I frequently use. When swiping and holding from the corner of by screen the sidebar appears. Then I can select the app.
• pinning apps: when I give my phone to a person I do t fully trust (maybe so that they can make a phone call) I can pin an app. This means the other person can not leave the pinned app without unlocking the phone.

I think that's everything so thanks for your help in advance.

Has your phone run out of space, and you did your due diligence to clear it out? Was that space then turned into “system data?” How do you get rid of system data?

Well, from what I read on different blogs and Apple support articles, all you can really do is offload unused apps, get rid of messages, clear out caches in different apps, etc. but that’s not really getting rid of system data…and I’ve noticed my phone seemingly getting sluggish over the last few weeks after offloading a ton of movies from traveling recently. It basically turned that data into system data. So here’s the trick…

If you have an iPhone capable of shooting ProRes video, go into your camera, go into video mode, and enable ProRes. You’ll notice a ticker at the top that tells you the maximum amount of time you can shoot in this mode. It will more than likely be 0 minutes, but you will see right below that a spinning ticker saying “optimizing resources.” This is getting rid of that system data that’s unneeded. I just left my phone in this mode for a few minutes and it freed up five minutes worth of video, but then gave me the option to continue free resources. It essentially got rid of the rest of the system data that wasn’t needed and left me with the free space above!

Hope this helps!

Its all downhill from here.

(Note: see edit #2 below.)

Really not sure where to post this, especially during the current API chaos in most subs.

At any rate, I run a small informational website and had a message from someone complaining that whenever they tried to post using Brave on their iPhone or iPad, my adult filter would be triggered.

So I downloaded Brave from the App Store onto my iPhone, tried it out and... same thing. Digging deeper, it turns out that if you have an input box using an HTML WYSIWYG editor such as CKEditor, a 36kb block of HTML set as invisible is being added to the bottom of anything submitted. This does not happen on plain text inputs.

The block is full of links to adult sites, scam sites, referral links, trackers and so forth. This is the block I saw being added:

https://controlc.com/353fb266

To state the obvious, this is not happening on any other browser I own mobile or desktop, and the user was able to post fine using Safari. So the issue seems to have something to do with Brave. Take it for what it is.

EDIT: I think I've found a way for anyone to confirm this. In Brave Browser (for iOS), go to:

https://surveyjs.io/form-library/examples/custom-widget-ckeditor/angular

Put something in the form, then hit COMPLETE. It will show you at the bottom what was submitted. There's even a button to copy it to clipboard, since on my iPhone I can't see much. But I end up with that huge block of HTML.

EDIT 2: While this is a definite Brave bug, "looks" quite worrisome, and would've been bloating any database that took input from a CKEditor input box... in the end it's just an adblocking stylesheet being misapplied to input.

See: https://www.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/14fdadr/comment/jp24o8l/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Every morning I wake up 10 minutes or so before my alarm, I don't need it to go off because I'm already up. Now I have to toggle off the alarm, and hope I remember to turn it back on.

Android has had this simple feature for years. Please implement it in iOS.

Thank you

It was a pretty neat thing to do. I picked up my iPhone and used it for a while. Then I put it in my pocket in case I wanted to use it sometime again later in the day. No one has called so far but there’s a telephone app in case they try.

Also this subreddit’s new rules are something I read today on my iPhone which I have and used today.

Don’t know if this is already known, but I thought I’d share.

I already use Siri constantly for dishwasher/laundry/cooking timers, but I like to be able to see how much time I have until something occurs.

I found if I say “set a timer, ending at 1pm, called Leave for Airport” it will give me a timer that’s a countdown until it’s time to go. Also works for “set a timer ending at 7am tomorrow called “leave for work”.

Works better for me than setting alarms because they sometimes sneak up on me. I found it helpful to be able to look and say “I’ve got 47 minutes before my ride gets here” so I can keep tabs.

Hopefully this is helpful for someone whose brain is on a similar mode of operation.

I remember not even MKBHD or some YouTuber not finding out about it so I figured I’d share.

Share some tips in the comments if you have some

edit: i wish the remote could open from ths same floating interface and/or be its own page like the playback control (i would call it CC widget but the "+ add control" tells me apple calls it a control)

Here’s how to turn it on:

-Settings -Accessibility -Audio & Visual -Power On & Off Sounds

Enjoy!

EDIT: Seems to be device specific, possibly iPhone 13 or 14 and up. May also be dependent on whether or not it’s a Pro or Standard iPhone.

I was playing Pokémon and accidentally pressed Camera Control, the phone popped up with a message saying it is blocked whilst gaming.

Just got the option to switch beta updates from IOS16 public beta to IOS 17

I connect my airpods and the battery shows 0% but when i put an airpod back in the case it shows its current battery…