Apple introduces automatic iPhone reboot security feature in iOS 18, enhancing user privacy while complicating unauthorized access attempts by both criminals and law enforcement.

Apple iPhone gets a new feature called Inactivity Reboot, which has been designed to prevent unauthorized access to your device. Now, with iOS 18.1, the tech giant is taking its security measures a step further,

404 Media reported that iPhones stored by police in evidence were rebooting themselves, and it turns out it’s all due to a new Inactivity Reboot feature shipping in iOS 18.1. First reported by security researcher Jiska Classen, this new feature reboots your iPhone if it has gone unused for at least four days.

A new feature called “inactivity reboot” has been found in the latest iOS 18.1 update, now available across many iPhones, including the latest iPhone 16 series.

Last week, we saw a report of law enforcement officials being concerned that iPhones were secretly communicating with each other to force reboots, frustrating law enforcement. However, while it seems these suspicions were indeed based on a change that Apple made in a recent iOS update, it’s not what police forensic investigators first thought.

Apple's iOS 18.1 auto-reboot feature locks iPhones after four days, blocking easy access, but at the same time, frustrating law enforcement in forensic probes.

Law enforcement aren't too thrilled with Apple's new security feature called 'Inactivity Reboot,' which automatically reboots an iPhone.

A new feature introduced on iOS 18.1 could make it difficult for law enforcement officials to gain access to seized devices for forensic analysis.

There’s something unexpected happening with iPhones that have the latest version of iOS 18.1. Specifically, law enforcement and tech journalists have reported that iPhones, when left unattended for long enough,