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Re:Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked by planb on Sunday February 18, 2024 @06:53AM (#39418328)
Obviously this guy was fooled by a friend who was using his iPhone to remotely operate the watch (which explains the „we are in control“ phrase). Now in this forum numerous people that simply have a broken digitizer chime in. Case closed.
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Re:Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked by codemusings on Sunday February 18, 2024 @07:07AM (#39418390)
It wasn't obvious at all to me that that's even possible. But as it turns out: it's an accessibility feature (1) to mirror the watch screen on iPhone in order to voice control it or use assistive touch.

1: https://support.apple.com/guide/watch/apple-watch-mirroring-...

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Re:Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked by caleb-allen on Sunday February 18, 2024 @08:45AM (#39419012)
Surely this is a vector for attack then?
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Re:Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked by planb on Sunday February 18, 2024 @04:08PM (#39423362)
No. You need to gain access to the phone. If you have access to the phone, the watch isn’t interesting anymore.
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