Comment by sigmoid10
15 hours ago
These are still 1-click, not zero click. So the best protection you can have is not opening unknown files that were sent to you. That being said, lockdown mode blocks all sorts of message attachments. From the videos it look like they are using pdfs in the messaging vector, which would get blocked too. So you would be safe-ish. But lockdown mode is so restrictive that it doesn't really make sense for most users. Or at least it doesn't make sense to buy a $1500 phone and then limit yourself to something you could have gotten for $50.
You don’t know what lockdown is do you? I’ve had my phone in lockdown for a year. I can’t: collaborate on notes, and it does not automatically open links in chat. Other than that my experience is identical to non lockdown.
My only gripe with lockdown mode is that my banking app loads icons from some source that ends up being blocked.
Quite annoying. I've tried to explain it to them, but to no avail.
It works great for me too.
But there are weirdnesses.
For example, you can't add a person to phone favorites.
Does the favorites added before enabling lockdown mode remain or they get removed as well?
I would still be using lockdown mode if the call notifications were send to my Apple Watch. Other than that lockdown mode was working pretty good for me.
I guess you don't browse any modern webpages? Otherwise I can't explain your perspective. You basically lose up to 95% of performance in anything remotely resembling a JS heavy web app. So it would run the same as on a cheap Android phone.
My experience has been the iPhone chip is fast enough to still run pages just fine. Maybe those ones that load 300 adverts and relay out the page 5 times as they load won’t work but they hardly worked before anyway.
Send me a webpage that you can’t view in lockdown. I haven’t had a single problem. I guess I’m just not really relevant in your eyes.
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> had my phone in lockdown for a year. I can’t: collaborate on notes
That's your own mistake, because you can collaborate on Notes while your iPhone is in Lockdown
You lose a lot: https://support.apple.com/en-us/105120
some sites don't work (you can explicitly whitelist them tho) but generally it's been fine. i would honestly prefer a phone that doesn't allow any comms to any non-contact list parties at this point.
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Doesn't seem like a lot according to the description and pretty much what I would set by default.
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Yeah what I want is a configurable version of lockdown mode where I can have my agent sync my allowlist with my hardware.
Like give me the list of what I can turn on and off, and then let me choose my lockdown sphere.
That’s the future, and it’s coming.
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I can send my friends a PDF of a restaurant's menu over iMessage. I think that wouldn't work for you?
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I use Lockdown Mode and the functionality I get is nothing like a $50 device. If you're being serious can you link to some $50 devices for sale that are on par with a recent iPhone Pro running in Lockdown Mode?
I’d bet the security of those $50 phones is worse than an iPhone without lockdown mode.