Only the few people that live in the middle of a desert by themselves. Other people typically have a friend or know someone with an iPhone.
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Bricked iPhone 16 Can Be Restored Wirelessly Using Another iPhone
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Agreed. Many people know or live with someone who has an iPhone (any will do, it just needs to transfer the firmware over), or they have access to a Mac or PC. Worst case, you bring it to Apple for repair. No reason to buy another phone just to do this recovery, I would think.
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Ok I've come to accept that "brick" never exactly means "permanently non-functional" anymore; it always exactly means "non-functional" and as such you have to read context to find out if it's permanent, temporary, or unstated. No more confusion 👍
Ok I've come to accept that "brick" never exactly means "permanently non-functional" anymore; it always exactly means "non-functional" and as such you have to read context to find out if it's permanent, temporary, or unstated. No more confusion 👍
Bricked just means non-operational; what you’re talking about is permanently bricked.
Yep. People love use word bricked for anything goes wrong and black screen for temporary, etc. It makes headline look more dramatic if word bricked used than any other words.
Bricked is rare, most of time it is not bricked, just temporary crashed.
I don’t use the ports on my 15 pm anyway I wireless charge over night and use my AirPod pros so no wires needed I actually prefer it
They could do that, but personally, I think the magnets on the AirPods case provide greater utility than reverse charging would.
I've never run out of AirPods (case) battery before my phone died, so I don't really see a use case for charging the AirPods with your phone. And as soon as you're able to charge your phone, you can also charge your AirPods with the exact same hardware (USB-C, MagSafe, Qi or even an Apple Watch charger).
Sacrificing magnets for a good alignment on the charger would be a downgrade for me. I've had several occasions where I put my AirPods Pro gen 1 (no magnets) on a Qi charger only to wake up the next morning to find that they either didn't charge at all or sometimes even fully discharged instead (while being hot).
Apple can’t go port less unless they include a MagSafe charger or advertise the iPhone cost to where it includes the cost of a separate MagSafe charger.
Besides, the Pros won’t go portless because they will lose TB4 data transfer, the ability to import files from a camera, and SSD video recording.
I’m not buying a portless iPhone.
Besides, the Pros won’t go portless because they will lose TB4 data transfer, the ability to import files from a camera, and SSD video recording.
I’m not buying a portless iPhone.
Not sure why they'd make it require another iOS device tbh. Makes sense for an Apple TV since your interface is a remote, but why not go all the way and just make iOS devices have internet recovery? I'd think that would be faster as well.
How can it have internet recovery if it's bricked and can't connect to the internet?
The bricked phone probably uses the internet connect of the good phone.
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That's exactly what I said.
But FYI, that's not what "bricked" used to mean. It originally meant "permanently non-operational" (ie. it is essentially a metal/glass brick) because one word was easier to say than two--it was shorthand. But because people misused it so much, it became just another word for "non-operational". So we no longer have one word to mean "permanently non-operational" and we're back to having to say "permanently".
I suspect you're right, it is used for dramatic effect and gets more attention.
But it seems to me that is the new official meaning ("not necessarily permanently broken"), simply because that is how it's most commonly used. Language evolves on its own, it can't (easily) be controlled. It's just annoying during these transition periods when a word's meaning changes.
Schroedinger’s Bricked iPhone is both frozen and bricked until you try and recover it.
Or, you know, ask a friend or family member who has an iPhone. Or use a computer of any kind like how it was done before they added this feature. Worst case scenario you bring it to an Apple Store. There are plenty of options besides buying a second phone.
You assume the need for a recovery partition that needs local storage. Phone A in recovery > Phone B pulls necessary restore files from Apple servers
Same concept as on a Mac. Internet recovery on Mac doesn't need any type of recovery partition present on internal storage to initiate. I assume there is some separate read only chip than can initiate a very basic connection to Apple servers which loads a live recovery partition into RAM. For example, when you completely wipe a Mac's internal storage, recovery partition and all, you can still boot to internet recovery, and once it's loaded you can use Disk Utility to see a mounted disk image. And besides, if iPhones now get a recovery partition, why wouldn't they make it work like a Mac recovery partition? Even if your boot volume is damaged or erased you can still use the recovery partition without the need of another device as Apple is implying here. Either way you look at it, having a second device seems unnecessary, but still a welcome feature.
Unfortunately hearing this is hardware limitation, so it is likely not coming to older models at all. A18 chip has updated Secure Enclave that allows remote restore.
(I just finally watched Apple event and catching up on Apple news after avoiding it for three months so apologies for weird reply post here)