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iOS 27 code suggests Apple could restrict leased devices after missed payments
9to5mac.com/2026/07/21/ios-27-code-suggests-apple-could-restrict-leased-devices-after-missed-payments/
9to5MaciOS 27 code suggests Apple could restrict leased devices after missed payments - 9to5MacCode found in the iOS 27 beta suggests Apple has built a system that could restrict leased devices when customers fall behind on payments.
Replying to @return2ozma@lemmy.world
Perfectly fair, yet I’m expecting people in here will dislike it.
Replying to @GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world
We’ve seen how big tech bends the knee to Trump. What if he told Apple to disable every iPhone due to some made up bullshit state of emergency. This affects everyone’s iPhone not just the leased ones.
Replying to @anon_8675309@lemmy.world
Which is something they already can do, just push an update and they are done. And after they simply go out of the market: nobody will buy their phone anymore.
But this is something different, here we are talking about something that is not different than reposessing a car if you don’t pay the loan you used to buy it.
Replying to @gian@lemmy.grys.it
I don’t want my car manufacturer sending an update to disable my push to start either. My car is paid off it’s mine, I should not have that on my car.
Replying to @anon_8675309@lemmy.world
When has that happened?
Replying to @GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world
I think to remember to have read something about the possibility for a car manufacturer to remotely disable the car if requested or defaulted, something like once you park the car and turn off the engine it will not start again so no security problem, but I cannot pinpoing when/where i read it or if it ever went beyond the stage of an idea.
Replying to @gian@lemmy.grys.it
If requested by who? That would actually be a fantastic security feature for owners to be able to do if their car is stolen.
Replying to @GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world
If requested by who?
IIRC by the seller, if you did not pay the montly check for your loan they were able to disable the car and then recollect it
That would actually be a fantastic security feature for owners to be able to do if their car is stolen.
Yep, it was a fantastic security feature for the owners but also a way to disable the car if you do not pay the loan.
In some way yes
Replying to @gian@lemmy.grys.it
That’s perfectly fair imo. If you aren’t making your payments you are violating your contract and they are well within their rights to disable the car.
Replying to @GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world
Ok, but then it is perfectly fair also for a phone.
Replying to @gian@lemmy.grys.it
Yes, it is. That was my point in the first comment of this chain.