Often, as soon as you take your new iPhone out of the box and turn it on, the device requires an update. It’s not a pleasant experience. But with the launch of the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro, the situation has become even more complicated. And the company had to launch an update to solve problems with data transfer between smartphones during their setup on the same day it went on sale.
Updates that appear immediately after setting up an iPhone, or even during the initial setup, as happened with the iPhone 15, usually set back the owner of the device. This means you’ll have to wait even longer to use your new phone, and no one likes that. But Apple plans to solve the problem in a very clever way.
According to a report published by Mark Gurman in Bloomberg assures that they are working on a new branded accessory that will allow you to update iPhones without removing them from the box, and thus solve this problem.
The accessory will be used in the Apple Store. The box is located above it and will be able to turn it on wirelessly, update, and then turn off the device. And all this without breaking the box that contains the new iPhone. The idea is that this new accessory will appear in the company’s stores before the end of 2023.
Apple could update new iPhones in even easier ways, but it may need new hardware
For several years, the iPhone had components that remained turned on or active even when the device was turned off. For example, to be able to find them if they get lost. It is a technology similar to AirTags that requires very little power.
Apple could develop a solution that – if the iPhone is new and has not yet been set up for the first time – it can be turned on remotely, without the device being nearby to update. It may be based on the WoW (Wake on Wireless LAN) protocol.
After setting up your device for the first time, you can disable this feature. While this is technically possible, Apple may decide not to do this until it is confident that it cannot be used maliciously.
Be that as it may, Apple’s solution is interesting in that it requires sufficient proximity between the accessory and the device body. Perhaps this is another form of security that allows these types of updates to be installed by authorized individuals and in controlled environments.
Source: Hiper Textual
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