Apple's iOS 18.1 update makes it much more difficult for thieves to get access to a smartphone after a 72-hour period.

In it an iPhone running the iOS 18.2 beta is locked and left for 3 days, at which point the phone reboots without any outside ...

With iOS 18, Apple introduced a feature that causes the iPhone to reboot every three days, security researchers have ...

Apple covertly inserted a new security feature in iOS 18.1 that automatically prompts iPhones to reboot after 72 hours of ...

Inactivity reboot" effectively puts iPhones in a more secure state by locking the user's encryption keys in the iPhone's ...

However, the explanation is actually much simpler. Referring to the feature as an "inactivity reboot," AppleInsider says that ...