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The author is a Forbes contributor. The opinions expressed are those of the writer. Apple has dropped a major new iOS 11.4 release and hidden behind its biggest changes (more below) is a great secret feature ‘Great Secret Features’ and ‘Nasty Surprises’ are my regular columns investigating the best features / biggest problems hidden behind the headlines. Credit for the discovery goes to security firm which spotted iOS 11.4 contains a secretive new feature called ‘USB Restricted Mode’ not mentioned in the release notes. But digging deep into further Apple documentation, Elcomsoft found the following description of the mode.
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Apple iOS 11 “To improve security, for a locked iOS device to communicate with USB accessories you must connect an accessory via Lightning connector to the device while unlocked — or enter your device passcode while connected — at least once a week,” In short: USB Restricted Mode only allows the Lighting port to be used for charging if the connected device is not successfully unlocked within a week. Why is this useful? Because of new hacking techniques (such as those used by digital forensics expert Grayshift) which work by cloning iOS device partitions, backing them up then restoring them in future once passcode attempts have been exceeded. It’s a (relatively) simple way to get at iPhone or iPad data from stolen iPhones or even iPhones taken into police custody.
As such, while iPhone owners are likely to be happy with this additional layer of security (and privacy) it will undoubtedly be met with anger by some law enforcement agencies. No wonder Apple isn’t advertising this feature. An additional consequence of USB Restricted Mode is even iTunes synchronisation will be blocked.
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This is because it was previously possible to connect an iPhone or iPad to a computer with which it had previously paired (and was therefore ‘trusted’) by iTunes and it would happily create a local backup of the device which could be restored to an iPhone endlessly, essentially giving hackers unlimited passcode attempts to unlock it. Interestingly USB Restricted Mode was originally part of iOS 11.3 betas, but was pulled just before release and had not been seen since. So here’s the bad news: the latest iOS 11.4 release which reintroduces this mode is still a beta (beta 4), which means it could yet be pulled for the second time.
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That said, I highly doubt this. IOS 11.4 is shaping up to be the release which makes good on previously pulled features, given its highlights are. As such iOS 11.4 looks set to restore a lot of goodwill. Especially, if it can also fix some of the, and problems introduced by iOS 11.3 and iOS 11.3.1 Follow Gordon on, and More On Forbes RECOMMENDED BY FORBES.