Post #2054293
2026-05-06 02:10 UTC
@mwichary@mastodon.online @gruber@mastodon.social It turns out this was that Stolen Device Protection thing @mjtsai@mastodon.social likes to complain about and that I was silently opted in to.
The thing is, iOS 26.4.2 came out April 22, and I updated THAT DAY. I got the "Your phone has been updated" flow when I installed it.
Why, then, when I reboot on May 5, does it give me the “Your phone has been updated” flow? A full 2 weeks later? Does the phone not actually restart after an update?
If I had been camping or something I would have been completely without recourse. I should be able to reboot my phone and still have a working phone. This was borderline unconscionable. 😡
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@gregatron5@vmst.io 2026-05-06 02:10
@mwichary@mastodon.online @gruber@mastodon.social @mjtsai@mastodon.social The utter irony is that even though I couldn't unlock the phone and all iCloud services were disabled (Messages still hasn't synced), I COULD access stuff through USB. Granted, I was using a "trusted device,” but I could download photos and use the phone as a tethered hotspot. I probably could have pulled files off its disk if I had thought to connect to it in Finder. Yet I couldn't unlock the damn phone. Because of a reboot.