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iOS 16 Exploit Lets You Change Your iPhone's Font System-Wide

FeliApple said:
Update to iOS 16 obliterating battery life and performance because of security, they said. It will be fine, they said.
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iOS 16 is perfectly fine with battery life. Everyone says updates destroy your battery life and this is correct because for a short period of time your battery life is going to suck. This is with iOS 16, 15, 14, 13 etc. etc..

As to bugs well, it’s not ad stable as iOS 15. At least not for me.
 
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russell_314 said:
iOS 16 is perfectly fine with battery life. Everyone says updates destroy your battery life and this is correct because for a short period of time your battery life is going to suck. This is with iOS 16, 15, 14, 13 etc. etc..

As to bugs well, it’s not ad stable as iOS 15. At least not for me.
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Nope, it’s not reversible. There might be an initial massive drain, but if that happens, when it stabilizes it just does in a far lower value in terms of screen-on time.

For whatever’s worth, I’ve (forcibly) updated once. September 2019, my 9.7-inch iPad Pro was forced from iOS 9 into iOS 12 thanks to Apple‘s A9 activation bug on iOS 9. Battery life was perfectly consistent on iOS 12 since the first cycle, until today.
 
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FeliApple said:
Nope, it’s not reversible. There might be an initial massive drain, but if that happens, when it stabilizes it just does in a far lower value in terms of screen-on time.

For whatever’s worth, I’ve (forcibly) updated once. September 2019, my 9.7-inch iPad Pro was forced from iOS 9 into iOS 12 thanks to Apple‘s A9 activation bug on iOS 9. Battery life was perfectly consistent on iOS 12 since the first cycle, until today.
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I didn’t say anything about it being reversible. I’m saying the battery drain is because of the update not due to any change. For a period after any update on iOS or macOS there’s going to be extra battery drain while the system is indexing or whatever it does.

I was getting all day battery life on my iOS 15 and I’m getting all day battery life on iOS 16.

Unless it’s just a child’s toy or you’re not doing anything that requires logging into an account, you really don’t want to use an outdated operating system. There’s too many publicly known security flaws. It’s kind of like people that are still using Windows XP. I got it that people like it but it’s not going to be pretty when their identity is stolen.
 
russell_314 said:
I didn’t say anything about it being reversible. I’m saying the battery drain is because of the update not due to any change. For a period after any update on iOS or macOS there’s going to be extra battery drain while the system is indexing or whatever it does.

I was getting all day battery life on my iOS 15 and I’m getting all day battery life on iOS 16.

Unless it’s just a child’s toy or you’re not doing anything that requires logging into an account, you really don’t want to use an outdated operating system. There’s too many publicly known security flaws. It’s kind of like people that are still using Windows XP. I got it that people like it but it’s not going to be pretty when their identity is stolen.
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Yeah, agreed, there might an extra, temporary battery drain on top of the irreversibly permanent one. It even happens with some new devices, too.

I would love to update everything I have and always run the latest version. I won’t buy everything new every year, and I keep things for a long time, regardless of whether I upgrade. Because of that, I have to stay on the earliest possible version to maintain perfect performance and battery life. Apple, either allow me to downgrade or guarantee me that battery life and performance will always be - on any iOS version - as perfect as it is on original or early versions and I’ll update until I’m tired. Until then… iPadOS 15 on my Air 5 and iOS 12 on my iPhone Xʀ it is.
 
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RamGuy said:
Not really. Apple has to supply APIs allowing apps to make system-wide changes like these. Having third-party App Store won't change how third-party apps can manipulate things on the system level.
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Except, if you recall, the EU also wants Apple to essentially open up all capabilities to 3rd parties, including SE access.
 
Yay now we can have Comic Sans used inappropriately everywhere

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He just want to make it looks like authentic Chinese font, that's all I see. If you ever tried any Chinese software they are all have the same fonts.
 
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samifathi said:
It changes the font, nothing else. We do strongly encourage users to update in the post. Thanks!
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We'll agree to disagree. I just don't see the point in advertising a "tool" using an open vulnerability in iOS in this day in age. You might as well promote the current IOS update as a reminder,..rather than a tool that you cannot 100% vouch for.
 
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H2SO4 said:
lol.
Does wanting a feature that the OEM doesn't provide mean you should buy Android?
Jeez what a silly, short sighted statement.
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Same person who was really upset when Apple allowed you to change your wallpaper on your iPhone. /s
 
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lkrupp said:
You know, if you are willing to sacrifice the security of your iPhone by forgoing updates so you can exploit a hole in iOS to play with your system font then just switch to Android and be done with it. Good grief.
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I don't get your logic. If you're willing to sacrifice the security of your iPhone, why not keep the iPhone? Don't get why one would have to switch to Android (apart from you offering your opinion about Android security)?
 
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MajorFubar said:
Being able to make simple customisations like this is partly why Android is so wholly dominant worldwide outside of USA, but I wouldn't endorse downloading something that exploits a security loophole in order to customize your iPhone. The whole idea seems sketchy as eff.
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After trying to support some people on Android who purposely changed their system font to comic sans, this is one area where I’m ok with Apple enforcing some consistency.

And yeah not sure why MR ran this article, this seems extremely dangerous. Who knows what else that app is doing.
 
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The last Settings app screenshot reminds me of all those people with Samsung phones taking screenshots of tweets while using the handwritten font and how it made whatever point they were trying to make about the person they were calling out take a backseat to their incredibly poor taste.
 
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