Police in Detroit, Michigan, noticed that confiscated iPhones were rebooting, locking them out of the phones. They dug deeper, and found this happened even with phones that were air-gapped, meaning having no connections to anywhere. After this came to light, it came out that iOS 18 has a feature that performs this inactivity reboot to protect against thieves. It apparently had a side effect of protecting others from law enforcement investigations. It’s an interesting balancing act that Apple may be walking, and it may be siding, as it often has, with the right to privacy for users. We will need to watch through future releases to see if this disappears.
It was reported that confiscated iPhones were mysteriously rebooting themselves, leaving cops confused. We now know why the reboot happened.
Found at www.androidauthority.com
