She Sent Her iPhone to Apple. Repair Techs Uploaded Her Nudes to Facebook (2021)

Re:She Sent Her iPhone to Apple. Repair Techs Uploaded Her N... by _fat_santa on Sunday September 28, 2025 @12:40PM (#45405749)

I had a friend a few years back that got taken for close to $50k and this feature would have prevented it.

- He was at a bar and got to talking to one girl.

- There was another girl watching him and his phone and figured out his passcode. The bar was dimly lit so FaceID didn't always work and at some point he entered his passcode and she saw.

- They all left to "go back to their place" and in the process the girls stole his phone.

- Mid ride they kicked him out of the Uber.

- He goes home and realized his bank accounts have all been cleaned out via Venmo and CashApp.

Had those apps been inside the "secure folder", they would have not been able to access them and thus would not have been able to clean him out like they did.

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Re:She Sent Her iPhone to Apple. Repair Techs Uploaded Her N... by lostlogin on Sunday September 28, 2025 @02:07PM (#45406493)

> The bar was dimly lit so FaceID didn't always work

I don’t think the dark stops Face ID. It works fine in total darkness.

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Re:She Sent Her iPhone to Apple. Repair Techs Uploaded Her N... by SoftTalker on Sunday September 28, 2025 @01:28PM (#45406175)

Or don't stay logged in to your banking apps. I have mine set to require a login every time I open them.

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Re:She Sent Her iPhone to Apple. Repair Techs Uploaded Her N... by dylan604 on Sunday September 28, 2025 @01:26PM (#45406150)

Were these the same girls that inspired the Hustlers movie? Or maybe they were inspired by it?

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Re:She Sent Her iPhone to Apple. Repair Techs Uploaded Her N... by commandersaki on Sunday September 28, 2025 @01:20PM (#45406085)

Ah that sucks, doesn't sound like Stolen Device Protection would help either.

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Re:She Sent Her iPhone to Apple. Repair Techs Uploaded Her N... by helsinki8 on Sunday September 28, 2025 @09:48PM (#45409694)

Shouldn't a call to the bank (and law enforcement) have caused those obviously fraudulent transfers to be halted or reversed?

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