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What legit use case involves not touching your phone at all for 3 days?
by Kwpolska 2y ago
What legit use case involves not touching your phone at all for 3 days?
- Hackbraten 2y agoMaybe you want people to be able to reach you on a secondary, inbound-only phone number. I’ve also heard people re-purpose old phones (with their batteries disconnected, hopefully) as tiny home servers or informational displays.
- neop1x 2y agoThe article says the phone reception works even BFU (just without contact info)
- adastra22 2y agoNot a phone, but at my old apartment I used to have an iPad mounted on the wall. It was a dynamic weather display, Ring doorbell answerer, multimedia control, etc. Would suck if every 3 days I had to enter my passcode again.
- Shank 2y agoI haven’t tested this, but I assume this wouldn’t occur if the device is fully unlocked and powered on. Most kiosk adjacent deployments are setup so that they never turn the screen off and remain unlocked.
- grishka 2y agoLooks like something that doesn't need to have a passcode on it in the first place.
- layer8 2y agoI have something like this as well, connected to my Apple account for calendar and reminder access etc. I wouldn’t want every random guest to have access to that.
- _1tem 2y agoiPad has a kiosk mode for these use cases.
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- YoumuChan 2y agoI connect an iPhone 12 to my vehicle's CarPlay all the time. Recently I often found the start unreliable, which defeats all the purpose.
- layer8 2y agoIt means that in the future you can’t use old iPhone hardware to run an unattended server or similar anymore (unless you simulate user activity by adding some hardware that taps on the display every three minutes, or something). This is why I don’t like that it’s a hardcoded non-configurable setting. It cripples potential use cases for the hardware.