Your iPhone passcode does NOT protect you as much as you think.. 👀🔓 Here’s how the new “Stolen Device Protection” feature works & why you NEED to enable it after updating to iOS 17.3! 📲🔐

There has been some confusion with this feature, so hope this video clears it up. This feature does not impact your day-to-day usage, as it only forces Face ID/Touch ID when you are away from a familiar location, like home or work. And when you are away from home or work and someone tries to change your Apple ID password, disable Find My, etc.. they’ll be hit with a double biometric authentication, 1-hour apart. No thief will be waiting around for all of that

Here's Apple's support page on Stolen Device Protection: It does not clarify what exactly classifies as a "familiar location" and if it applies to all Significant Locations or just home & work.

However, I have tested this in 3 different locations that I'd assume are logged in my "significant locations" and the feature did not detect them as "familiar" - so they appear not to be 1:1 correlated. This is good, but further clarification from Apple would be nice

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I appreciate that! Glad you find them useful 🙌

Hey Brandon, do you have any thoughts on this?

They're not 1:1 correlated. So I don't see this as a "flaw" at all.

I enabled it right away. I didn’t realize it would be just one button tap. Was expecting it to take way longer and be an involved process.

If you’re not already using Face ID you should that’s the first step hahah

Best feature released in awhile