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Re:I’ll never bring my phone on an international flight again by oAlbe on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @02:28PM (#13646357)
I have some questions actually. Is it something you need to enable on Android? I seem to understand from the comment above yours that iOS has this enabled by default. If so, how do you actually enable it?
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Re:I’ll never bring my phone on an international flight again by psybin on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @02:37PM (#13646437)
Yes, it's impossible to disable the disk encryption on iOS. If you don't set a passcode, the disk is still encrypted (but only with a per device key), this prevents recovery of data after an erase.
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Re:I’ll never bring my phone on an international flight again by ajross on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @02:31PM (#13646387)
Settings -> Security -> Encrypt Phone
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