Apple has added a new code into the latest iOS 18.1 update that makes it harder for police and thieves to break into the ...

Apple has apparently created a new feature for iOS 18.1 that makes it difficult for brute-force machines to unlock an iPhone.

A recent report suggested that iPhones were secretly communicating with each other in a way the police didn’t like. Now there’s a new answer to the mystery.

The inactivity reboot code stipulates that iPhones should automatically reboot themselves after a certain amount of ...

"We have identified code within iOS 18 and higher that is an inactivity timer," said Christopher Vance, a forensic specialist ...

After a power cycle, an iPhone enters a secure “Before First Unlock” (BFU ... an intended security feature that Apple ...

Apple has quietly added a new security feature to iOS 18.1 that automatically reboots iPhones if they haven't been unlocked for a certain period, which makes it harder for anyone to access the phone's ...

Jiska Classen, a security researcher then investigated Apple’s code and discovered ... of Before First Unlock (BFU), so ...

However, the explanation is actually much simpler. Referring to the feature as an "inactivity reboot," AppleInsider says that ...

iPhones aren’t secretly plotting together to reboot themselves, despite what some law enforcement folks initially thought.

A new iPhone security feature in iOS 18 will make it tough for forensic analysts to obtain data from a locked device ...