Concerns about bad actors gaining control and taking over a user’s iPhone continue to increase. The bad actors who gain access to the user’s device can perform numerous actions one of which would be to permanently lock the user out of their device by flipping user’s recovery key.
A successful breach of user’s settings by these opportunists, otherwise known as bad actors, leaves the owner’s personal data and information vulnerable for exploitation, impersonation, blackmail, and fraud.
Some security measures that help reduce the risk of vulnerability of an apple device have been identified and incorporated into the functionality of the apple devices. Some of which include the Face Recognition features which allow access to only the users who have matched their facial identification credentials with the device’s Face recognition functionality. The Touch ID feature is another amazing feature that grants users access only after recognizing that the user’s fingerprint matches the Touch ID credentials set by the user on the device. Using longer alphanumeric passcode which involves using passcodes that are a combination of alphabets and numbers that makes it harder for bad actors to decipher passcodes is another way to secure access to users’ device.
Users can also set up a secondary password that would be required before changing an Apple ID. If the bad actors don’t have the secondary passwords, they can’t have access to successfully change an Apple ID of the device.
Backing up data in the apple cloud resources is another information security feature that gives Apple users’ the opportunity to retrieve data in their devices if the device is stolen or lost.