Bricked iPhone 16 Can Be Restored Wirelessly Using Another iPhone

Re:Bricked iPhone 16 Can Be Restored Wirelessly Using Anothe... by alliao on Sunday September 22, 2024 @05:45PM (#41620353)

this is the sort of functionality that only appears when the pain in the retail is felt by the corp. though can't say I think it's a good idea though.. feels like a free rein for state level adversaries...

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Re:Bricked iPhone 16 Can Be Restored Wirelessly Using Anothe... by bpye on Sunday September 22, 2024 @06:32PM (#41620653)

Presumably the signing requirements are the same as the normal USB DFU process?

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Re:Bricked iPhone 16 Can Be Restored Wirelessly Using Anothe... by wmf on Sunday September 22, 2024 @09:02PM (#41621457)

At smaller scale if a problem affects 1 out of 100,000 customers you just eat it. But at Apple's scale and profit margin they can afford to fix it.

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Re:Bricked iPhone 16 Can Be Restored Wirelessly Using Anothe... by MBCook on Sunday September 22, 2024 @11:33PM (#41622189)

This may be an outgrowth that just sort of fell out of their project to allow updating the software on iPhones in the box.

they did that so people wouldn’t buy a new phone that had been sitting on the shelf for a few weeks or whatever and then immediately have to update the OS. By using a special device they designed they can power up and update the phone with the latest OS in the box so buyers are almost always up-to-date when it hits their hands.

But the fact that they did all that probably means that they had everything they needed to do this. Or maybe that’s how they “update” the phone, they don’t update the OS like a user would they just reflash it completely.

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Re:Bricked iPhone 16 Can Be Restored Wirelessly Using Anothe... by grishka on Monday September 23, 2024 @12:14AM (#41622355)

> though can't say I think it's a good idea though.. feels like a free rein for state level adversaries...

All iOS devices have secure boot that (unfortunately) can't be disabled.

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Re:Bricked iPhone 16 Can Be Restored Wirelessly Using Anothe... by fragmede on Monday September 23, 2024 @12:15AM (#41622357)

Most ;)

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Re:Bricked iPhone 16 Can Be Restored Wirelessly Using Anothe... by grishka on Monday September 23, 2024 @12:24AM (#41622375)

Some have vulnerable bootroms, yes, but I doubt those can use this new restore process anyway

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