5 posts tagged ‘Apple ID’
Stolen Device Protection in iOS 17.3
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Joe Rossignol: The first iOS 17.3 beta rolling out to developers today includes a new “Stolen Device Protection” feature that is designed to add an additional layer of security in the event someone has stolen your iPhone and also obtained the device’s passcode. Joanna Stern and Nicole Nguyen: With Stolen Device Protection: If you want […]
Nothing's Failed iMessages Workaround Was Too Good To Be True
Gizmodo,
Last week was certainly exciting for the prospect of green and blue bubbles finding peace and harmony in the chat realm, though that excitement was a bit premature in Nothing’s case. Read more...
Bitten by the Black Box of iCloud
Dan Moren: While I was nominally able to log back into iCloud, most of my data wasn’t actually syncing back. A dialog box told me that I needed to verify my account in order to re-establish end-to-end encryption for sensitive information like my keychain and health data, but clicking the prompted button did…absolutely nothing. […] […]
Secondary Apple ID Mess and Inadvertent Password Reset
I was doing some testing with Apple Mail on my test Mac using my test iCloud account. I made a fresh macOS user account and entered the Apple ID, but Apple said it was “locked for security reasons.” Who knows why? To unlock the account, it wanted me to verify using one of my other […]
Not Setting Up Find My Bricked My MacBook
Paul McMahon (via Hacker News): About 30 minutes before my flight was boarding, I pulled out my laptop to do some last minute work. But when I opened it up, a stranger’s profile greeted me. Evidently we had swapped laptops going through security.[…]I eagerly opened the box, which had a distinctly exotic scent - perfume […]