{"id":40804,"date":"2023-10-16T17:17:34","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T21:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=40804"},"modified":"2023-11-22T12:21:25","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T17:21:25","slug":"updating-iphones-in-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/16\/updating-iphones-in-boxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Updating iPhones in Boxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/23\/10\/15\/apple-plans-to-update-iphones-in-store-without-opening-the-boxes\">Malcolm Owen<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=37895272\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/23\/10\/15\/apple-plans-to-update-iphones-in-store-without-opening-the-boxes\"><p>Mark Gurman claims that Apple has a system that can update the operating system of iPhones before they get sold. Crucially, it can do so without opening the box.<\/p><p>Consisting of a &ldquo;pad-like device,&rdquo; store employees place unopened iPhone boxes onto it to trigger an update. The pad wirelessly turns on the iPhone, runs the software update, then turns it off again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This sounds convenient, though hopefully they&rsquo;ve designed it so that it can&rsquo;t be used after an iPhone has been set up.<\/p>\n\n<p id=\"updating-iphones-in-boxes-update-2023-11-22\">Update (2023-11-22): See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/atp.fm\/557\">Accidental<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/atp.fm\/558\">Tech Podcast<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malcolm Owen (Hacker News): Mark Gurman claims that Apple has a system that can update the operating system of iPhones before they get sold. Crucially, it can do so without opening the box.Consisting of a &ldquo;pad-like device,&rdquo; store employees place unopened iPhone boxes onto it to trigger an update. The pad wirelessly turns on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-10-16T21:17:37Z","apple_news_api_id":"90acec08-020a-40c5-ae1d-0f5648aeb0ef","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-11-22T17:21:27Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AkKzsCAIKQMWuHQ9WSK6w7w","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[58,31,2321,85,365,2087],"class_list":["post-40804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appleretailstores","tag-ios","tag-ios-17","tag-iphone","tag-magsafe","tag-software-update"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40804"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41178,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40804\/revisions\/41178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}