Having it and it working as well are two different things. historically Apple has been ahead in security that can slow down or stop law enforcement. And before before you jump to the same conclusions as someone else, I never have owned an iPhone, nor wanted to.
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Pxtl@lemmy.ca 2 days agoAndroid phones have lockdown mode too. Hold the power button to show the shutdown menu and click lockdown.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 2 days ago
bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
That’s incorrect. Google’s Android has several industry leading security features the iPhone doesn’t support.
Analog@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
That’s… not what they said.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 2 days ago
There’s a lot of copium in this thread. Joke is I’ve been pretty hardcore Android since day one, I have never owned an iPhone. I am just capable of some level of objectivity. Shit there’s podcasts out there from early in the Android v iOS days where I was the token Android guy defending it as the IBM compatible equivalent of its day. Telling these hard core iPhone guys that Apple would lose the market share fight worldwide because of the closed nature, the same way they lost it on the desktop. But yeah, there’s people here denouncing me as an Apple fanboy because I was capable of complimenting a strength it has.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
joke on you! google’s recent requirement is that all phone vendors make the power button open an AI menu instead of the shutdown menu! on most phones it can be fixed, but it’s often hidden very deep in the settings.
Pxtl@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
I’d forgotten because the first thing I did when that rolled out was revert it so long-press on the power button was the power menu. IIRC the default is like long-press-power-and-volume-up or some garbage like that.
Lyubo@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
AI will take as to the future shit 🤣 You: Hey Google (or the hell the new assistant names are), I’m beening arrested could you lock donw my phone!" The bot: Sorry, I couldn’t get that. connecting to the ChatGPT/ Gemini servers
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
This is more of “disable face ID” type of thing rather than “lockdown”
BanMe@lemmy.world 2 days ago
They’re not the same. Android lockdown is a temporary lock screen state. iOS lockdown is a full OS hardening, affects the way the phone operates full-time.
Pxtl@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
Ah, my bad. I looked it up and while Android does have an analog to what iOS calls “lockdown”, Android uses different terminology for it, since “Lockdown” is, as you said, lock the lockscreen to be password/pin-only (which would still be a reasonable approach before being forced to turn over your phone to somebody since those are things that are harder to be compelled to provide).
Android’s version of iOS “Lockdown” is called “Advanced Protection Mode”.