Lockdown Mode drastically limits iPhone features to stop targeted attacks. It is extreme, reversible, and meant for high-risk users, not everyone. Enabling it can even block law enforcement's forensic ...

Apple's Lockdown Mode for iPhone is getting significant attention this week. On Wednesday, 404 Media reported the FBI has so far been unable to access the seized iPhone of a Washington Post reporter ...

Lockdown Mode is an optional security feature designed by Apple to provide maximum protection against highly sophisticated digital threats. When enabled on your Apple device, it greatly reduces ...

Apple's Lockdown Mode is just one of many ways that can keep your iPhone data secure, as the FBI has once more been finding out. In January 2026, the FBI raided the home of Washington Post journalist ...

You can be confident that Lockdown Mode will keep your iPhone safe from spyware. AI image: ChatGPT/Cult of Mac There’s a setting called Lockdown Mode you can activate on your iPhone that will make it ...

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Apple says it has no record of a successful spyware attack against any device running Lockdown Mode, the opt-in security feature it introduced in 2022. "We are not aware of any successful mercenary ...

FILE - A person uses an iPhone on Oct. 8, 2019 in New York. ne models and later some Mac computers to get access to genuine Apple parts and tools to be able to repair them. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File) ...

When federal agents raided a reporter’s home in 2023, they walked out with an iPhone they could not crack, because it was already running Lockdown Mode. That single detail has turned an obscure Apple ...

Macworld reports that the FBI was unable to extract data from a Washington Post reporter’s seized iPhone 13 due to Apple’s Lockdown Mode feature. Lockdown Mode, introduced in iOS 16, provides extreme ...