iOS 12, The same as 11.4.1 iOS beta, has integrated a very important change for iPhone and iPad customers around the world, bringing high security for the data of the users who use it. Apple has implemented in iOS 12 a function called USB Restricted Mode, this blocking access through the Lightning port to data from the iPhone and iPad if the iDevices have not been unlocked by the user in the last hour before connecting to them.
iOS 12 has this functionality implemented especially by the Apple company to increase the security level of its products, the Americans saying that they would not have thought of the function to frustrate the police, but that it makes their work more difficult. Apple says that it does not think its security measures for products in the idea of frustrating the police, or other similar bodies, but the new function of iOS 12 will complicate the work of data recovery.
iOS 12: Apple ADMITS Blocking Police Access
iOS 12 would have had this function in development, apparently, before Apple discovered that it blocks the possibility of authorities to extract data from iDevices by breaking access codes using special devices. Apple claimed that it learned about this data extraction technique only after it started working on this feature of iOS 12, but I'm pretty sure that they knew very well what they were doing, and what the final impact of the implementation is.
"We're constantly strengthening the security protections in every Apple product to help customers defend against hackers, identity thieves and intrusions into their personal data. We have the greatest respect for law enforcement, and we don't design our security improvements to frustrate their efforts to do their jobs. Apple began working on the USB issue before learning it was a favorite of law enforcement. Apple said that after it learned of the techniques, it reviewed the iPhone operating system code and improved security. It decided to simply alter the setting, a cruder way of preventing most of the potential access by unfriendly parties."
iOS 12 obliges authorities to unlock iPhone phones and iPad tablets within one hour of the moment they entered the custody of the authorities, otherwise the new security function will make it impossible to unlock them. Of course, it is not mandatory to activate this function, and it does not affect the charging of the phones, but if you want increased security, then this is the solution to keep your phone data completely safe.
