WHAT!?!?!? Never had to do any of that for an update. Maybe explain further how and what you do to update iOS. Should tap the software update button and wait it out for a few min and BAM done.
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When do you have to do that? I haven't had to log out of anything or change any iCloud settings before or after updates (short of perhaps major ones going to a brand new version that changes some things and/or going to beta updates perhaps).
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I don't even really do that, just go to software update and hit download and install and put my PIN in if it asks me for it and let it run through it all and it just boots back up at the end right to where it was and I can continue using my device just as before.
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Yup, that's basically it.
Un-paired both of my Apple Watches form two iPhones. Had to start them over from backup and re-enter credit card and other data. Not difficult just annoying and a bit time consuming. Other then that the two iPhones and iPads went without a hitch for me. Hopefully the update stays that way.
"allowing them to eavesdrop on calls, harvest messages, activate cameras and microphones and drain the device of its personal data."
Dude that must be the exploit John Reese and Harold Finch use on Person of Interest. Wonder how they will do it now?
Volume hitting Apple servers. People on east coast getting home, all updating at onceHmm...
My iPad Air 2 updated absolutely fine OTA.
However, my iPhone 5 is struggling when connected to my iMac (the way I've always updated my iPhone).
It starts of ok but at around 350mb I get the following message:
I've tried 3 times already.
Maybe I'll try again tomorrow morning...
I was with iPhone from day one and they lost me when they dedicated their lives to stopping jailbreakers instead of giving us the features promised since Steve Jobs. Apple sucks now and will never gain footage again
Yeah, I mean who wants security issues fixed, right?
I don't need to close and reboot and backup first. Just do it in case any app is hung up and to get phone or pad in a fresh stable rebooted condition. Probably redundant and have done updates without doing so. Just figure it can't hurt to have every register fresh and nothing else running or suspended in background. Holdover from my windows days in years past. Still have a desktop that blue screened to death sitting in basement. Gonna use it for target practice at the range.
"allowing them to eavesdrop on calls, harvest messages, activate cameras and microphones and drain the device of its personal data."
Dude that must be the exploit John Reese and Harold Finch use on Person of Interest. Wonder how they will do it now?
Started re-watching the show on Netflix.... so sad it ended.
I'm not seeing many 'This update bricked my device.' posts.
Either it's safe or people can't post because their device is bricked.
I'm waiting until tomorrow!
Either it's safe or people can't post because their device is bricked.
I'm waiting until tomorrow!
And you took the bait from a 0day troll. His account was just registered to make that comment .. congrats.
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Installed it earlier today, everything is fine.
You seem unaware of some of Apple's proactive security moves. Two big ones happened just recently.
Apple announces its first security bounty program at Black Hat 2016 with up to $200K payouts
Here's a list of Apple security updates.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201222
Note that this list has hundreds of examples of Apple disrupting the little thing called user experience (to apply security updates) since 2002. And before that, but this list only goes back to 2002.
Just provided some obvious sarcasm without going over the top or beyond that. Small feeding at best there without much of a risk.
That's an interesting thought. Auto-bricking to prevent bad news from spreading.......LOL
So which government is targeting a human rights lawyer and why?
Don't have time to read this link now: https://citizenlab.org/2016/08/million-dollar-dissident-iphone-zero-day-nso-group-uae/
I bet Apple and the NSA already have multiple exploits lined up to use each time one of the them is discovered and reported, thereby requiring a patch.
Trust no one!
Don't have time to read this link now: https://citizenlab.org/2016/08/million-dollar-dissident-iphone-zero-day-nso-group-uae/
I bet Apple and the NSA already have multiple exploits lined up to use each time one of the them is discovered and reported, thereby requiring a patch.
Trust no one!
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Obvious troll !!!!
Here is avi he can use
.Edit: sorry to be sexist, might be a she, or an it. Err...I mean transgender.
Don't flame me just kidding.
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Never click on suspicious links. I hope Apple has extensively tested how links in iMessage are previewed on iOS 10. Crossing my fingers.
Besides, of course the high frequency of security updates is highly welcome. But on the other hand one could ask why so many of them are actually needed to be released in the first place...
Huh? Stopping Jailbreaks is stopping everyone's phone from being hacked, killed or exploited to be a fodder for bots, like good ol' XP was in the days.
IOS now has most features that used to be in Jailbreaks (and with IOS 10, that will be even more so). USing jailbreaks is trusting the Jailbreaker SW not to install a trojan on your phone; well Android's for you then...
Waiting for someone to send out link disguised as Apple IOS Update. Now that would be a helluva link.
What I'd personally like is if Apple provided a "Install security updates automatically" option for security-only iOS updates. It can then be installed when the user is not using the phone (e.g. at night or something). This would save people from having to update their phone and waiting for it to be installed. Kind of like how they have that option in macOS as well.
Perhaps because their are individuals and companies dedicated to hacking phones and selling such software to "stop terrorists" and or quench freedom of speech, privacy of individuals, and the spread of control by governments over the people they should be responsive to. Just a guess on my part.
Then you will be waiting forever, since it's virtually impossible to get a release that is 100% bug free.
Because those kinds of bugs just happen; that's 30 years of software/systems dev talking.
There millions of lines of codes involved here, countless possible paths and user entries that interact together. With time, coding standards/design and even the languages themselves and IDE tools have mitigated most of the type of security bugs that used to plague software, but some more subtle ones still slip through.
A system that evolves fast has more of them since your changing more code, more interfaces and adding/removing/changing things all over the system.
The more services/means of access a system provides, the more potential entry points it provides.
For example, If there were user accounts, that would be one more thing to worry about...
Hardened systems have few services, access points, users, all of them monitored from another system which doesn't depend on the first.
Hardened systems tend to have few features/services and honed them to death.
Most people would complain if IOS became like that.
Unlike those systems IOS (and Android) must be hard to compromise WHILE most of the opposite of those hardened systems. This exposes a lot more code to outside forces.
Only in the last decade, with much of our lives becoming digital, has security become less than an afterthought on digital platforms. There has been an obvious learning curve for the entire industry. Things are improving though; nobody would trust all their info to a phone with XP level security!
