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Apple introduced new security settings in the iOS 17.3 developer beta to prevent thieves from entering passcodes to get your info including account passwords.
While you can already use your iCloud account to store and sync passwords across your devices, it wasn’t easy to figure out. Passwords were available from the Settings app on your Mac or iPhone.
Apple's new security feature, stolen device protection, prevents iPhone thieves from using your passcode to access critical iOS features.
If the perp has both the phone and its passcode ( without Stolen Device Protection activated), they could reset the Apple ID password, turn off Find My, possibly steal payment info or passwords ...
Apple is adding a passwords manager app to macOS, iPad, iPhone and even Windows. That last one works via iCloud.
After the shooter's phone had been recovered, the FBI asked San Bernardino County, the owner of the phone, to reset the password to the shooter's iCloud account in order to acquire data from the iCloud backup. However, this rendered the phone unable to backup recent data to iCloud, until the new iCloud password was entered.
iCloud is a cloud service operated by Apple Inc. Launched on October 12, 2011, iCloud enables users to store and sync data across devices, including Apple Mail, Apple Calendar, Apple Photos, Apple Notes, contacts, settings, backups, and files, to collaborate with other users, and track assets through Find My.
The problem with a disabled device is that you can't type in the password anymore, even if you suddenly remember it. You either have to wait a certain amount of time or connect the iPhone, iPad or ...