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Inactivity reboot" effectively puts iPhones in a more secure state by locking the user's encryption keys in the iPhone's ...

A new security feature on the iPhone with iOS 18 reboots the phone after 72 hours of inactivity to protect your data.

Last week brought reports of police officials warning other departments that iPhones being stored in evidence for forensic ...

New code introduced in the latest version of Apple's mobile operating system could make it more difficult for both police and ...

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

Apple added an inactivity timer that reboots iPhones to a more secure state when they haven’t been unlocked in a while.

A new feature in the latest iOS release reportedly reboots locked devices that have not been unlocked for longer periods of ...