Apple has apparently created a new feature for iOS 18.1 that makes it difficult for brute-force machines to unlock an iPhone.
Just yesterday we told you that law enforcement officials were concerned when some iPhone models, running iOS 18 or later and held as evidence by the cops, were rebooting automatically. By rebooting, it would become harder for law enforcement to use brute force cracking machines like the ones made by Cellebrite to figure out the passcode of a locked iPhone, unlock the device, and go through it for evidence needed in a criminal case.
To make matters worse for the police, iPhones running older versions of iOS that were also held by law enforcement were apparently getting signals from the units running iOS 18 that made them reboot, Again, this was done to make it harder to unlock the phone so that law enforcement could not scour it for evidence.
