Apple

Maybe someone can help me with my problem. I have two iPhones and my Apple Watch on my Apple account. One iPhone is from work and the other is my personal iPhone. The watch is registered on my private iPhone. Now I've been getting a request to enter my password several times a day for some time. How do I get rid of this?

When I enter my password, this message appears again shortly afterwards. Restarting the watch and resetting it has done nothing.

Someone in my Destiny community asked whether the USB-C port on the Magic Keyboard for iPad can pass data, or if it’s just for charging. I decided to look it up.

Apple’s support document makes it clear that, unfortunately, the port only does power (check the ‘Charge your iPad’ section, pictured here). But then check the section I highlighted, emphasis mine:

Never connect one end of a USB-C cable to the USB-C port on your iPad and the other end to the USB-C port on your Magic Keyboard

Never!

I need to know what happens! Is Apple hiding the secret to infinite power in broad daylight??

Since I logged out and logged in from iCloud, I no longer receive notifications for recurring events on the calendar. I have events on my Gmail account with the Apple Calendar app, so that shouldn't have caused the problem, but it's been happening since I logged out. Does anyone else have this problem?

Most nights my stats show that I’m asleep longer than I’m actually in bed. It’s pretty annoying.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/33588339

I received a text notification from an unknown number earlier today. I'm usually suspicious of such things, but clicked the notification. The messages app loaded, but displayed a blank white screen until I closed the app. After doing so, there was no evidence of the message notification or the message itself, in any of the message categories (known, unknown, all, deleted messages, etc).

This is on an iPhone 14 Pro Max using a fully up to date device running iOS 18.3.1 .

Has anyone else experienced this? I am hoping that the group might be able to offer insight into whether this is a bug worth reporting to Apple, or an attack of some sort? I am aware that at least one zero-click messaging bug was recently patched in iOS. I rebooted my device, and I'm waiting for the security delay to expire so I can reset my iCloud password. I have 2FA and stolen device protection switched on.

(please disregard link to example.com ; my Lemmy client wouldn't allow a text-only post without an image or a link).

I'm a very happy owner of an iPhone 13 mini, and recently I noticed that I had a new focus mode called "Reduce Interruptions". I thought that focus mode would only work with apple intelligence phones, so is there anything I'm missing? Does it work on my phone or is there some kind of compromise?

The research team found that the attack has a 90% success rate and can pinpoint a device's location within minutes. "While it is scary if your smart lock is hacked, it becomes far more horrifying if the attacker also knows its location," said one of the researchers.

What makes the exploit even more concerning is that it doesn't require physical access or administrator privileges on the target device – it can actually be executed remotely. In their experiments, the team successfully tracked a stationary computer with 10-foot accuracy and even reconstructed the exact flight path of a gaming console brought onboard an airplane.

The attack does require fairly hefty computing resources – the research team used hundreds of graphics processing units to quickly find matching cryptographic keys. However, they note that this could be achieved relatively inexpensively by renting GPUs, which has become a common practice in the crypto-mining community.