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A comment on She Sent Her iPhone to Apple. Repair Techs Uploaded Her Nudes to Facebook (2021). Parent comment

Re:She Sent Her iPhone to Apple. Repair Techs Uploaded Her N... by yegle on Sunday September 28, 2025 @12:36PM (#45405709)
Shouldn't it be a standard procedure for the Apple Store Genius to instruct the user to enable Repair Mode before accepting the device?
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Re:She Sent Her iPhone to Apple. Repair Techs Uploaded Her N... by fyrn_ on Sunday September 28, 2025 @12:45PM (#45405795)
2016 is before repair mode existed
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Re:She Sent Her iPhone to Apple. Repair Techs Uploaded Her N... by yegle on Sunday September 28, 2025 @12:49PM (#45405837)
Oh I meant it should not be a discovery issue if this is the standard procedure. The user don't have to know the feature exists.
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Re:She Sent Her iPhone to Apple. Repair Techs Uploaded Her N... by dangus on Sunday September 28, 2025 @12:57PM (#45405902)
It’s a very confusing and hidden feature. You have to start “deleting” your phone from Find My (which is itself an hidden swipe action) and it’ll tell you that you can’t but you can enable repair mode.

IMO the feature shouldn’t even be in Find My because it’s not really related to finding your phone or activation locking/unlocking it.

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Re:She Sent Her iPhone to Apple. Repair Techs Uploaded Her N... by foota on Sunday September 28, 2025 @01:56PM (#45406400)
I'll take shipping the org chart for a thousand Alex.
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