Starting with iOS 16, people who are at risk of being targeted with spyware will have some much-needed help.
Today, Apple is announcing a new feature for its upcoming iOS 16 release called Lockdown Mode. Apple emphasizes that the feature was created for a small subset of users who are at high risk of government targeting, and it doesn't expect the feature to be widely adopted. But for those who want to use it, the feature is an alternate mode of iOS that heavily restricts the tools and services that spyware actors target to take control of victims' devices.
“This is an unprecedented step for user security for high-risk users,” Ron Deibert, director of the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab said on a call with reporters ahead of the announcement. “I believe that this will throw a wrench into their modus operandi. I expect [spyware vendors] to try to evolve, but hopefully, this feature will prevent some of those harms from happening down the road.
Lockdown Mode is a separate operating system mode. To turn it on, users enable the feature in the Settings menu and then are prompted to restart their device for all of the protections and digital defenses to fully take effect. The feature imposes limitations on the leakiest parts of the operating system sieve. Lockdown Mode attempts to comprehensively address threats from web browsing, for example, by blocking many speed and efficiency features that Safari use to render webpages.
Lockdown Mode also limits all sorts of incoming invitations and requests, unless the device has previously initiated a request. That means your friend won't be able to call you on FaceTime, for example, if you've never called them. And to take it one step further, even when you initiate an interaction with another device, Lockdown Mode only honors that connection for 30 days.
Lockdown Mode also strengthens other protections. For example, when a device is locked, it won't receive connections from anything physically plugged into it. And, crucially, a device that isn't already registered with one of Apple's enterprise mobile device management programs can't be added to one of these schemes once Lockdown Mode is turned on.
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