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Thievery of iPhones turned into a social engineering task when thieves realized that most people don’t guard their iPhone passwords as they should. Since Apple allows users to change their Apple ID password and access all the protected data only with an iPhone passcode, thieves started targeting users in bards and other social places, where they learned your iPhone passcode before stealing the device.
With the iOS 17.3 update, Apple introduced a Stolen Device Protection feature, which helps users protect their iPhone data in case of theft. Once you enable this feature, any change of your Apple ID password requires Face ID or Touch ID authentication. However, there’s a critical flaw in this solution that can still be exploited.
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The hole in iPhone Stolen Device Protection feature
The iPhone Stolen Device Protection feature is turned off by default in a familiar location like your home and workplace. Here in lies the fatal flaw:
Apple doesn’t allow users to set familiar locations manually and instead learns your behavior and marks places as familiar places…
