Apple Offers Clarification on Mobile Safari Anti-Phishing Feature

[ntrigue]

I think that this method covers a large population of users, upwards of 70%.

However, my Safari rarely runs in the background as I conciously close all pages to a blank screen then press the home button.

I'm just going to open Safari and plug iPhone in every few weeks.

 

[libertyforall]

Well that is dumb! So much for "unlimited" data network usage...

 

[iVoid]

So it won't update if you don't have a WIFI connection where you charge your phone? That seems a bit limited.

 

[carmenodie]

your device should be updated as often as possible cause the jerks trying to get in your stuff work 24/7.

 

[spillproof]

I don't want 3.1 anymore

I'm already smart about my web browsing.

 

[wackymacky]

Well' I quite like the idea of updating while the phone is charging and connecting to a wifi,

Though being told about it would be good and having it as a opition, ie first time a pop-uo box "update avaliable, download?" with don't ask again option.

In fact why not have updates like this all the time?

 

[justcause]

launching of Safari

The launching of Safari is to ensure Wifi is active and being used.

This feature is one of those things, any path Apple took would have upset somebody, so they'd naturally head over to a forum and complain.

It would have been better though to state:
- Warn when visiting fraudulent websites in Safari (anti-phishing) ** requires active Wifi connection while being charged for anti-phishing list updates

 

[djgamble]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile/7C144 Safari/528.16)

So how does an iPhone user check that it's running with the latest version of this system?

Sync your iPhone...

 

[bobsentell]

I'm sorry...

I'm confused. In order to get this update you have sync AND leave your iPhone on WiFi? Am I understanding this correctly? Why not just let iTunes handle the update and just make the updated list part of the sync process? That way we don't have to mess with the WiFi.

 

[-aggie-]

There are so many different opinions as to what the OP stated in this thread that I really have no idea what you're supposed to do.

 

[MacMan86]

The launching of Safari is to ensure Wifi is active and being used.

How did you work that one out?

I'm confused. In order to get this update you have sync AND leave your iPhone on WiFi? Am I understanding this correctly?

There is no need to sync. The information does not come from iTunes, it comes from the internet. Simply leave your iPhone plugged in (which you have to do someday) with Wi-Fi turned on

There are so many different opinions as to what the OP stated in this thread that I really have no idea what you're supposed to do.

It's quite simple. People saying you have to open the Safari app and lock the screen are wrong - the Safari app is always open anyway - there is no need to open the app and lock the phone.

It is very simple:

• Connect your iPhone to some sort of power source where you have Wi-Fi

That's it. That simple. And what benefit do you get? An update to a list of websites that you shouldn't give your banking details to. If you have an ounce of common sense when using the web this whole thing is quite irrelevant anyway.

 

[nbs2]

So it won't update if you don't have a WIFI connection where you charge your phone? That seems a bit limited.

Which is why the communication breakdown occured. If I had been told I need to do this on occasion, I might have done it before.

My router is shut down at night and I don't have WiFi at work. I charge my phone at night and sometimes at work. I can't think of the last time that WiFi and charging converged for me (probably my last sync). Without, on a whim, going to the iPhone blog page on MR, I wouldn't have found out this is how the data is loaded to my phone.

Perhaps updating over 3G if your database is over two weeks old? That would people eventually get protected, but would cut out most users who do charge while on WiFi.

 

[The Phazer]

It's unbelievable that Apple had to have people shout at them before they realised mentioning how this works might be a good idea...

Anyway, that's much better now they have.

Phazer

 

[-aggie-]

SNIP
It's quite simple. People saying you have to open the Safari app and lock the screen are wrong - the Safari app is always open anyway - there is no need to open the app and lock the phone.

It is very simple:

• Connect your iPhone to some sort of power source where you have Wi-Fi

That's it. That simple. And what benefit do you get? An update to a list of websites that you shouldn't give your banking details to. If you have an ounce of common sense when using the web this whole thing is quite irrelevant anyway.

My statement was more rhetorical than that I was having problems understanding what the OP quoted. However, since everyone seemed to be coming up with different interpretations of what was written, I was starting to wonder if I was reading it wrong.

That being said, Apple should have had some kind of notification (like Windows) that this needed to be done. I mean, we know about it, but the vast majority of iPhone users will not. Sure, they'll eventually be charging their phone and the screen will probably be off, but they still should know it, since they might not have wifi enabled (and why that needs to be done is not explained). They also should have let people know about the ramifications for upgrading to 3.1, but that's for another thread.

 

[Mirtos]

Yep, its working, attached the warning message i received ....

 

[szark]

Well, this will be a nearly useless feature for me. I think I turn on my WiFi about once every three months.

 

[wacky4alanis]

Same here - I hardly ever turn on Wifi. What's the point when 3G is everywhere these days? I figure it's just another radio sucking power from my battery. And I rarely sync to iTunes - the whole point to the iPhone is that it's wireless. Constantly hooking it up to a wire so iTunes can talk to it seems so last millennium.

 

[wolfie37]

Same here - I hardly ever turn on Wifi. What's the point when 3G is everywhere these days? I figure it's just another radio sucking power from my battery. And I rarely sync to iTunes - the whole point to the iPhone is that it's wireless. Constantly hooking it up to a wire so iTunes can talk to it seems so last millennium.

Because 3G sucks battery power, much more so than WiFi, it's slower than WiFi and WiFi is in many many places, especially the places where using the Internet is possible.