4 ms·
anti-theft should never impact user experience in such negative way. there are different ways to let the user be in control of this anti-theft technology which
by vectorEQ 8y ago
anti-theft should never impact user experience in such negative way. there are different ways to let the user be in control of this anti-theft technology which are much more user friendly and less prone to these kind of situations.
- madeofpalk 8y agoThere certainly is. Don't enable the PIN code. Security, almost by definition, makes the user experience harder and worse.
- cannam 8y agoTrouble is, a PIN code is useful as a very casual line of defence (threat model: your brother picking up the device and messing with your stuff). It's terrible that the obvious means to avoid that threat is also something that could lose you access to your device entirely.
- lathiat 8y agoThat's actually not the case, the PIN doesn't lock out your iOS device. iCloud Activation Lock does. It requires that if you factory reset the device (without first disabling icloud activation lock), you must authenticate with the same iCloud account it was previously using to "unlock" it. This is designed precisely to make stolen iOS devices (and logic boards) worthless. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201365 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201365
- matthewmacleod 8y agoWell, I'm interested to know what they are. At some fundamental level, how do you ensure the security of a device if you can't verify that it's the owner who is trying to access it?
- mantas 8y agoGrowing up in relatively rough whereabouts, anti-theft IS user experience. Of course, there must be a reasonable way for legitimate user to get his device back on. But reading the article, it looks like OP had quite a bad luck to loose all those recovery points :|