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No, it's not a good thing. The Factory Reset process is defective. It SHOULD ask the user if they are selling, giving away, or otherwise disposing of the devi
by mjevans 5y ago
No, it's not a good thing.
The Factory Reset process is defective. It SHOULD ask the user if they are selling, giving away, or otherwise disposing of the device; or otherwise just want to remove that device from their account.
- marginalia_nu 5y agoThis works well because pickpockets are well known for their inability to tell lies, and would always answer truthfully.
- ben_w 5y agoSarcasm accepted, but you can require the account password to proceed with the reset when the user makes that choice.
- LeoPanthera 5y agoIt does. That is exactly what it does.
- ben_w 5y agoGood to know; but why are you and @swiftcoder saying apparently different things? [0] I’m on iOS, so I can’t test this myself. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30777197 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30777197
- LeoPanthera 5y agoHe's talking about Android, I'm talking about iOS. I don't know what Android does, and I'm sure that it's device-specific anyway, unlike iPhones.
- ben_w 5y agoAh, I thought what I was responding to was talking about Android. I can see now this was not necessarily the case.
- easton 5y agoIt does. "Erase all content and settings" prompts the user to enter their password to disable Find My iPhone, and if you do it through iTunes, once the phone reboots into the clean OS it prompts on the computer to type the credentials in. You could refuse to type the credentials in leaving it locked, but Apple is pretty informative throughout the process. (You can also remove it from Find My iPhone on the web and it unlocks the device even if you don't have it anymore)
- swiftcoder 5y agoNote that Android doesn't ask the same thing (and especially not if you initiate factory reset from the bootloader, as tech folks are prone to do).