Apple’s flashy new mobile operating system has been in developers’ hands for all of 48 hours"6\12". Now one iPhone user has already found a bug that blows a hole in the software’s security protections.
On Wednesday, 36-year old Jose Rodriguez, an iPhone user who lives on the Spanish island of Tenerife, sent me the video above, showing how to bypass the lockscreen on Apple’s beta version of iOS 7 in just a few seconds. By opening iOS’s Control Room and accessing the phone’s calculator application before opening the phone’s camera, anyone can access, delete, email, upload or tweet the device’s photos without knowing its passcode.
Forbes’ video producer Jonathan Hall was able to reproduce the trick and send me photos from a locked phone. “Reading it, it seems difficult,” Rodriguez writes to me. “But it is super easy to do.”
It’s no surprise that iOS 7 beta has its flaws. It’s only available to those with developer accounts, for now, and those who have used it describe it as majorly buggy. It’s likely Apple will patch this bug before the operating system sees its official release.
But the lockscreen bypass is just the latest in a series that have been found in iOS, and others haven’t been spotted in beta. One such bypass trick was uncovered by Rodriguez in March, and it came just a day after Apple had patched another that had been found a month before. Better for Apple to fix this bug now than when the software has been downloaded to millions of iPhones.
Data source: Forbes (By Andy Greenberg)
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