Just yesterday, we told you about a way to get around the Apple iPhone’s ten passcode attempt limit. Once you fail to open an iPhone after ten cracks at tapping in the correct passcode, the device is automatically wiped. This is done to prevent hackers from obtaining personal information stored in the handset. A researcher named Matthew Hickey said when an iPhone running iOS 11 is plugged in, keyboard
Just yesterday, we told you about a way to get around the Apple iPhone’s ten passcode attempt limit. Once you fail to open an iPhone after ten cracks at tapping in the correct passcode, the device is automatically wiped. This is done to prevent hackers from obtaining personal information stored in the handset. A researcher named Matthew Hickey said when an iPhone running iOS 11 is plugged in, keyboard input has precedence over the phone ‘s passcode limit feature, which allowed him to design a method using brute force to open an iPhone.
With this in mind, Hickey said that trying all possible four-digit combinations from 0000 to 9999 in one string, and six-digit combinations from 000000 to 999999 in one string, would unlock a plugged in iPhone before it wiped all of the data. Hickey even made a video of the process.
“The recent report about a passcode bypass on iPhone was in error, and a result of incorrect testing.”-Apple
