[Kwpolska]

What legit use case involves not touching your phone at all for 3 days?

[layer8]

It means that in the future you can’t use old iPhone hardware to run an unattended server or similar anymore (unless you simulate user activity by adding some hardware that taps on the display every three minutes, or something). This is why I don’t like that it’s a hardcoded non-configurable setting. It cripples potential use cases for the hardware.

[adastra22]

Not a phone, but at my old apartment I used to have an iPad mounted on the wall. It was a dynamic weather display, Ring doorbell answerer, multimedia control, etc. Would suck if every 3 days I had to enter my passcode again.

[Shank]

I haven’t tested this, but I assume this wouldn’t occur if the device is fully unlocked and powered on. Most kiosk adjacent deployments are setup so that they never turn the screen off and remain unlocked.

[grishka]

Looks like something that doesn't need to have a passcode on it in the first place.

[layer8]

I have something like this as well, connected to my Apple account for calendar and reminder access etc. I wouldn’t want every random guest to have access to that.

[_1tem]

iPad has a kiosk mode for these use cases.

[Hackbraten]

Maybe you want people to be able to reach you on a secondary, inbound-only phone number.

I’ve also heard people re-purpose old phones (with their batteries disconnected, hopefully) as tiny home servers or informational displays.

[neop1x]

The article says the phone reception works even BFU (just without contact info)

[YoumuChan]

I connect an iPhone 12 to my vehicle's CarPlay all the time. Recently I often found the start unreliable, which defeats all the purpose.