

#MALWAREBYTES FOR IPHONE 7 PLUS#
Note that this procedure does not give me the option for ‘Emergency SOS’ that I get when I press and hold a volume button plus the side power button (which also gives the ‘Swipe to power off’, ‘Cancel’, and ‘Medical ID’ options).

The Malwarebytes instructions don’t mention anything about the ‘swipe to power off’ appearing, but if you see it you should ignore it and keep holding the side button down to get the force-restart. But if I continue holding the side button down (a seemingly long time) the screen will go blank, eventually the Apple logo will appear, the phone will restart, and when I swipe up to unlock I’m asked for my passcode. I had always used this to shut down when I needed to restart (yes, I was performing a power-off/power-on, not a restart). On my iPhone 12 Mini running iOS 15.2 when I use the vol_up/vol_down/hold_side sequence I get the ‘swipe to power off’ screen as well as a ‘Cancel’ button. This is a clue that it wasn’t really shut down - it didn’t ask for the passcode.

Your passcode is required when iPhone restarts.” In the video it didn’t ask for his passcode, it just went straight to the home screen. To restart, press and hold the side power button, the Apple logo comes on then the lock screen appears.Ī difference between the video showing the effect of the hack and my test is that when I swiped up to unlock after restart I was asked for my passcode: “Enter Passcode. The shutdown worked the same in both - there’s a quick flash of the ‘busy gear’ then the screen goes dark, just as hacked phone in the video does.
