Comment by so-gala-massey
16 hours ago
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.
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.
it's very rare that they break but there's some popular ones like booking.com
in my experience like maybe <5% of the web break
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.
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?
> 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.
From what I can see in Apple docs, aside from web limitations it sounds great. Is there any real reason to not enable this? Like I would be deeply suspicious of a PDF sent via messages and no auto-connect to insecure WiFi is also common sense.
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Doesn't seem like a lot according to the description and pretty much what I would set by default.
> Web browsing: Certain complex web technologies are blocked, which might cause some websites to load more slowly or not operate correctly. In addition, web fonts might not be displayed, and images might be replaced with a missing image icon.
Images being replaced with a missing image icon doesn't seem like a lot according to the description, and it's what you 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.
your future, ironically, is android 2.3, before google went full monopoly evil
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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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