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Getting Your iPhone Repaired Could Ban You From Snapchat (www.howtogeek.com)
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[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 67 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Factory reset doesn't delete persistent app data enabled by app developer [paraphrased]

What about Erase All Content and Settings? You seriously can't fully erase a second-hand phone you bought?! That's insane

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 43 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What's even worse is that Apple is not fully erasing the phones that they refurbish.

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago

They are fully erasing it. But it's still the same iPhone. With a device ID that is banned.

[–] whynotzoidberg@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago

Apple urges developers to not use DeviceCheck for anything beyond basic device verification, and if you're a developer that's also misusing it, then you should definitely cease that—there are probably more reliable ways to check whether it's the same user trying to access an account from a device or not.

I don’t think I care about not being able to erase the device ID. It seems useful to have this, actually, for back-tracing if need be.

Snapchat probs shouldn’t use the DeviceCheck services improperly. But hey, that’s just like my opinion, man.

More, not very interesting, info on DeviceCheck services here: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicecheck

[–] mbirth@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 months ago

I can’t see what was posted above anymore, but the DeviceCheck API lets app developers store 2 binary digits (that means 4 different states: 00, 01, 10 or 11) per device on Apple’s servers. So, no, these don’t get erased during a Factory Reset as they’re stored on Apple’s servers. But your phone will.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

APPLE DOES NOT CARE ABOUT YOU AND DOES NOT CARE ABOUT YOUR PRIVACY

[–] reddit_sux@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What does AMD has to do with your privacy.