A few days ago we told you that Apple was beginning to remove the famous security cords that prevent (or hinder) that we can take an iPhone from those found in the displays of the company's stores. Although it was only happening in some UK and US stores, It was striking that Apple left its iPhone totally "free" without any apparent impediment that could prevent someone from putting it in their pocket and taking it home. Now we know more details about how Apple protects these terminals to discourage friends from others.
In addition to the obvious alarm systems that will go off the moment you leave the store with one of these iPhones in your hand, the security cameras that are scattered around strategic places in their stores (they are difficult to find but if you look for them you will find them), and the security guards who monitor, together with the employees themselves, especially when they see people who may be suspicious appear, Apple has made sure that in the unlikely event that you could take your iPhone home undetected, you are not really taking anything but an expensive and pretty paperweight that it is not going to be of any use to you. As it does? With different software installed than normal iPhones.
It is not the first time that Apple does this, in fact all the devices that are on the display tables have a special operating system. Mac computers erase all user content every time they reboot, iOS devices do not allow you to set a lock key, any changes you make to the Safari home page, for example, will disappear after a while, or the photos you take with the device will be automatically deleted every time the terminal is restarted. In addition to these peculiarities, Apple has added a new system that makes the device is completely blocked as soon as it leaves the store and the WiFi connectivity with the local network is lost. In this way, the company will not even have to bother using the "Find my iPhone" function to do so, it will be automatic and the terminal will be completely unusable. Risk a crime just to get a paperweight? Dont have much sense.
Well more than one could use the internal parts, battery, screen, camera etc.
It seems correct to me that Apple does that, although they can also do it to the original iPhones, thus taking away the headache.
As far as I know, Barcelona has been doing this for a long time to remove the cord….
1- Deactivate the Wi-Fi before leaving to see if it crashes
2- Turn it off and turn it on in DFU mode to put the latest iOS back into it
The IMEI or serial number is really "lockable"
At the time of inserting the new iOS ipsw, and starting, it will ask you for the icloud account associated with the device, so it would only work for the pieces as they say.
how much know-it-all ... if apple wants to block it, it will block it, neither DFU nor blessed h ** stiadas. As they say, only for parts
Yes, whatever you say .. Then you see a Chinese do it and your panties fall off .. Anyway. it is better to live in the comfort of ignorance and not think too much, right? Oh…
enlighten us with your hacker wisdom and so you glimpse something of knowing among so much «ignorance» that according to you there is ... now it's rest! If apple wants to block it, it will block it, no matter how much Chinese, Pakistani or Iraqi who get in the way of fooling around with the phone.