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My comment is in response to your “yes this replacement is desired.” button in a world where parts can be harvested from a phone and used in a different one. My
by falsenapkin 3y ago
My comment is in response to your “yes this replacement is desired.” button in a world where parts can be harvested from a phone and used in a different one. My understanding of what you mean is if phone A were stolen and parts removed from it and installed in phone B then phone B would get the “yes this replacement is desired.” button instead of whatever is in place now. My feeling is this button would be no different from just not having a button at all. The user of phone B will almost never care what that prompt says and will just click through, they're certainly not going to consider the parts were stolen from phone A.
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y agoChange "replacement" to "removal" and it should work as intended. I haven't authorized my stolen phone's parts to be removed so they can't be installed in any other phone.
- bonzini 3y agoBut if the phone doesn't turn on you can't authorize the removal. And if it turns on but a factory reset is enough to let you authorize the removal, you're back to square 1. Either way it's not feasible.
- circuit10 3y agoIt's a better solution than always rejecting it, at least
- sciolistse 3y agothe phone is likely linked to an apple account. seems reasonable that if the components are approved for a specific phone and that phone is linked to an icloud account, that account could permit a swap?
- bonzini 3y agoThat assumes that you managed to ask the previous owner to log into iCloud on another phone and "free" the previous one for repairs. I guess you could do that if he's buying a new iPhone from you, but still... it is similar to the Macs that are stuck on the previous owner's enterprise account.
- snypher 3y agoI thought person A/ex-phone A would get the "someone is using your old battery, allow?" via iCloud account