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by CalRobert 28 days ago
Would lockdown mode on iOS stop this?
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Probably, that's the point of it, however your smartphone becomes a very dumbphone in lockdown mode, intentionally to reduce attack surface. It's only really practical if you just need a dumb phone system endpoint to send and receive SMS and PSTN calls and check the time.
I keep my phone in lockdown mode and haven’t noticed too many problems day-to-day.

A few minor inconveniences (webGL doesn’t work, the magic automatic code from SMS keyboard integration is gone, etc.) but overall the phone is still a smart phone.

Mine has been on lockdown mode for months and all I’ve noticed is some images not loading on sites.