Stolen Device Protection May Protect You From Accessing Your Own Device
Note that this remains an iPhone-only feature, even though an iPad could be exploited the same way. I have to infer either that Apple has had almost no reports of exploitation via iPad passcode theft, or that they are balancing the needs of the average iPad user who is out and about with that device against the complexity of managing Stolen Device Protection.
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Once enabled, you see two options: Away from Familiar Locations and Always. Familiar Locations ostensibly leans on Significant Locations, but I’ll warn you that I have, on multiple occasions, been in my home, a place I spent a significant majority of my time, and was told by Stolen Device Protection that I wasn’t in a familiar location.
Stolen Device Protection will require that you erase and restore your phone to be able to regain full access to it should FaceID fail to recognize you (surgery, injury, shaving a beard, broken eye glasses, etc…)
Previously:
- iOS 26.4.1 and iPadOS 26.4.1
- iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4
- iOS 26.4: Stolen Device Protection Enabled by Default
- iOS 17.6 and iPadOS 17.6
- Janky Apple ID Security
