Apple said the news about the possibility of easy selection of the password to any iPhone. In his statement to reporters, Apple said the following: “the recent message about overcoming password iPhone was erroneous and is the result of incorrect testing.”
Further details Apple was not to go. The hacker also admitted that he can hurry up with conclusions because such passwords are not always recorded when you enter and only think iPhone has accepted the password.
Over the weekend the network stirred up from the message that it is possible to make the number of password attempts is infinite. The method was discovered by a hacker named Hickey. According to him it turned out that if you connect a device to impersonate an external keyboard to a Lightning connector, the iOS allows you to enter a password an infinite number of times.
The result was that enough to add to the connected device base for Avtopribor codes, and after a few days to guess the password at any Apple smartphone with the version prior to iOS 11.3, inclusive. In iOS 12 the issue is resolved and the system disables support for the connection of input devices with Lightning if iPhone is locked for longer hours.
Recall the secret password to unlock the screen in mobiles Apple complements the scanner of fingerprints. In the standard situation, the iPhone allows you to enter the code incorrectly 9 times in a row after the tenth error, the system erases all data in the internal memory. For counting the number of the entered passwords is handled by a separate module and programmatically force it to stop “ticking” is impossible.