Critical iOS 7 Bug Allows Thieves To Disable “Find My iPhone”
A YouTube video has appeared that shows you how you can take someone’s iPhone running iOS 7.x and not only disable the “Find My iPhone” feature, but erase all the iCloud information. That means that your chances of getting the phone back are between slim and none if it is stolen.
Here’s the video:
This is likely going to set off alarm bells inside 1 Infinite Loop. To protect yourself, put a security code on your phone and make sure it has a short duration set to automatically lock itself. In the meantime, Apple needs to quickly address this as this makes one of the key features of iOS 7 pretty much useless.
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Critical iOS 7 Bug Allows Thieves To Disable “Find My iPhone”
A YouTube video has appeared that shows you how you can take someone’s iPhone running iOS 7.x and not only disable the “Find My iPhone” feature, but erase all the iCloud information. That means that your chances of getting the phone back are between slim and none if it is stolen.
Here’s the video:
This is likely going to set off alarm bells inside 1 Infinite Loop. To protect yourself, put a security code on your phone and make sure it has a short duration set to automatically lock itself. In the meantime, Apple needs to quickly address this as this makes one of the key features of iOS 7 pretty much useless.
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This entry was posted on April 3, 2014 at 10:58 am and is filed under Commentary with tags Apple. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.