Exactly - block everything to read or reply until you unlock it with your face/finger, best decision ever

Same. Lock Screen doesn’t show anything without faceID

Agreed. Only other thing I leave on is live activities for sports scores.

I leave on Widgets, Live activities and Siri. This is so that weather and battery levels show up. Turning Siri off does not allow you to remotely lock it if the phone is taken away.

What if they voice dial your credit card company

That's insane from your bank too. I typically need to authorise transactions that large using faceid on my banking app.

Did they smash your window? If so, I hope it wasn’t the small one

Was your phone/wallet visible? Or were they just mass breaking into cars? The beach parking lots always seemed to be devoid of crime whenever I go, but maybe I've been lucky or haven't noticed.

Wait you can reply to anything even if the phone is locked? On Android it doesn't let you do such thing until you unlock it.

WhT part of the settings do u turn these features off. And thanks for the info

Was it a new 13 pro you received? Sorry this happened

Wow that's some exceptionally shitty bank approving that value with no extra security. Literally everything i pay for i get push notification from my bank for me to explicitly approve with my bank access code even if it's $0.00 validation charge

I'm wondering the same, I can't reply to a message regardless of whether the setting is on or off, if the screen is locked.

This is for replying to phone calls with a message, not messages themselves.

Same. Just test on my phones and it won’t let me do anything before unlock my phone.

Also set a shortcut to automatically run at 3:00 AM that turns off airplane mode and enables cellular data.

Most important one, also get an esim if you haven’t already. Because they can always take out a physical sim to cut you off from tracking it etc.

If you have esim and turn off control centre then whenever they turn on the phone its probably going to connect to the internet if you have service

iOS in the last few versions doesn’t let you turn off bluetooth from control center, it’ll always be on. In the last couple versions, using the find my network, it can still be located even when the phone is turned off, it’s still being tracked by the amount of Apple devices out in the wild. I get your point and would’ve recommended that years ago.

Can’t they turn the whole phone off even when locked ?

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Damn… thanks for the heads up…. I’m really surprised that this is enabled automatically.

Yesss they should make this a default setting, It’s funny and annoying that Apple keeps advertising offline finding yet with their default settings, a thief could just go to the control center on an iPhone or iPad they stole, turn on airplane mode and then turn off Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, and boom the phone can’t be tracked, and then they can either just wait for the phone to die, or turn it off because with Bluetooth turned off, offline finding is automatically disabled so the “offline finding” “feature” that exists would be useless regardless of Power Reserve because it won’t and can’t automatically activate when the device shuts down with Bluetooth turned off unless Apple makes that a setting, which is stupid, if Bluetooth is turned on then it’ll show “iPhone Findable After Power Off” under the Slide to Power Off screen but if it’s turned off, it’s completely nonexistent and the message just disappears. Apple should really show and let users know about these privacy and security settings when a user sets up their iPhone or iPad regardless of if they’re transferring data from an old device or if they did a software update.

They really should let you setup limited versions for when your phone is locked. Half of the time I use Siri hands free when my phone is locked, so now I’m stuck between losing that functionality or leaving my phone vulnerable to a thief. Like if my phone is locked in my pocket “hey siri” on my AirPods doesn’t work (which defeats the whole point of that feature)

Is there a way to keep the rest of the swipe down control center but getting rid of the Airplane Mode toggle? I use the control center a lot

Op’s phone must have show previews on. I learned to turn that off early on because people in college would snoop my locksceeen if it was just laying on a table and could read my messages 😂

Yeah someone else mentioned this as well; that this setting does not do what OP thinks it does. Now I'm curious. Seems like there's something missing from OP's story.

After testing myself I had to change “Show Previews” in notifications to Always (I believe it is set to always by default but I have always had it set to “When Unlocked”) as well as the setting OP mentions to get this to work as stated.

It allowed me to reply to messages in my Lock Screen with the Face ID covered

It is.

What prevents them from going into settings and turning that off?

It’s because OP changed the option to allow read and reply to messages while locked feature to ON from the default which is OFF… The offending feature is not the one in the image above.

It’s not really an oversight, it’s been a well known thing in iOS for years. If you don’t want to show sensitive information on the Lock Screen then turn off that feature. You could leave the OP’s feature on and elect to not show text previews which would also solve that problem since they wouldn’t know what the message says.

It’s a oversight by the bank to be able to authorize 9k purchases by replying with a number. Should require a password on the app or Face ID or something that isn’t easily accessible. Even just sending a text with a link to the app that logs you in wouldve been almost as fast and convenient.

FWIW, on my iphone se 2 on the latest IOS Siri tells me I need to unlock my iphone first when I ask to turn on airplane mode while on lock screen.

As far as I know since a very long while ago, turning off Control Center prevents Siri from turning off Airplane Mode without your passcode, so turning Siri off is unnecessary for this particular case.

In other words, you can think of Siri as the one helping you change Control Center toggles, so stopping the latter stops the former.

Yet you have USB accessories turned on

I had a coworker who would grab peoples phones and use Siri to send messages, sometimes quite vulgar. They did it on my phone and I assumed they somehow unlocked the phone with my password to send the texts, turns out it was Siri. One of several reasons I have completely disabled Siri on my devices.

FYI… the reason I have “wallet” turned on is so that if I’m getting pulled over, I can have my phone locked and show the cop my insurance cards. (In the wallet app without a passcode).

It will still prompt to pay with a passcode even when you do this.

Never give law enforcement your unlocked phone. Ever.

Have to turn off Siri too because it can be enabled that way as well.

$9200 is an unusually large amount to charge to a credit card. When Amex saw the charge, their fraud system automatically texted OP's phone to see if the charge was valid. The thieves were able to reply to the text message from OP's lockscreen, answering "1" for yes the charge is valid. If the thieves weren't able to respond, then the charge wouldn't have gone through and the thieves wouldn't have been able to buy the $9200 worth of Apple Store stuff.

This is why I won’t take a rental that doesn’t have a trunk. I travel for work and I’m in rental cars all the time.

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Because the OP turned on the phone’s ability to display (and hence reply to) messages even while locked. This is on the OP for changing the default setting (not the one in the photo)

I’m not sure this is on Apple. Default settings are not to show previews when locked (which subsequently stops you from replying) and this setting they switched off is replying via text when someone is calling you.

bonus security tip: if getting pulled over by cops, ask Siri "who am I?" that way Face ID will be turned off, requiring the passcode to get in. they can no longer just take your phone and hold it to your face to unlock it.
also a shortcut floating around called "hey Siri, I'm getting pulled over" will auto-start recording

Eh, the number of individual menus and settings you have to go through to fully ‘secure’ a phone is pretty substantial. A class isn’t enough, you need very specific guidance per every device and account you have. Multiply every device setting times weird loopholes in various account, like this, and it’s just an impossible task.

A couple weeks ago, there was a thing about using screen time to set up a separate passcode for a Screen Time setting so someone couldn’t access a buried iCloud setting that turns off activation lock. It’s like every month some new obscure thing comes out.

Settings/Face ID & Passcode, enter your passcode, allow access when locked.