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MichaelGG on March 7, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple VP: The FBI wants to roll back safeguards th...

Has Apple addressed this? I was under the impression the PIN was needed to update the OS. Why isn't it? Some sort of recovery method that doesn't wipe data?

sitharus on March 7, 2016 [–]

OS updates OTA need your PIN, but using DFU mode connected to iTunes doesn't. I assume this is so a broken OS upgrade can't brick your phone.

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