{"id":31191,"date":"2025-08-27T08:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T06:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macwin.ch\/?p=31191"},"modified":"2025-08-27T08:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T06:14:09","slug":"apple-puts-iphone-users-at-risk-with-its-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macwin.ch\/en\/apple-puts-iphone-users-at-risk-with-its-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Puts iPhone Users at Risk with Its Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u26a0\ufe0f <strong>Warning to Users<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before accepting an update on your iPhone, think carefully about the possible consequences. Imagine for a moment that your phone no longer restarts and all your apps become inaccessible: emails, calendars, banking apps, medical data, photos, videos, music\u2026 everything could disappear in an instant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is not just a hypothesis: these are real experiences reported for more than two years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>A recurring bug ignored by Apple<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When performing an update via the supplied USB cable, connected to a MacBook, MacMini, or a recent PC, the update suddenly stops at 50%\u2026 and the iPhone remains stuck.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even trying to restart with button combinations or using recovery mode doesn\u2019t help: you cannot continue the update or restore the device. Result: your iPhone becomes unusable.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You will then need\u2026 a second phone to call Apple\u2019s hotline.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>After-sales service far from the promised standards<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more than two years, this problem has been reported to Apple, both via the hotline and the developer channel. Yet, no fix has been provided.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even official Apple repair centers acknowledge the bug. And for you, this means:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li>1 to 2 hours of travel to drop off your device,<\/li>\n<li>several days of waiting for a possible return,<\/li>\n<li>sometimes the obligation to buy a new iPhone.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And if your one-year warranty has expired (the legal two-year warranty is rarely applied), the bill is yours to pay.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Precious time lost<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even with a backup, restoring your iPhone is a time-consuming nightmare:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li>Reinstallation of all apps,<\/li>\n<li>Manual reactivation of logins and passwords (banks, insurance, credit cards),<\/li>\n<li>Reconfiguration of services.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In short, hours wasted\u2026 due to known bugs that Apple never fixed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Quality out of sync with the high prices<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For devices sold at premium prices, Apple delivers a service that looks more like patchwork than excellence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The hotline often replies: <em>\u201cYou are the first to report this problem.\u201d<\/em> \u2013 a scripted answer, as if something that\u2019s not in their database doesn\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s like the blinders put on horses: only seeing straight ahead while ignoring everything else.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Conclusion: Protect yourself!<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li>Only update if it\u2019s absolutely necessary.<\/li>\n<li>Disable automatic updates: keep control of your devices.<\/li>\n<li>Avoid buying new models as soon as they are released: you are used as guinea pigs to test app compatibility with the new iOS.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\ud83d\udc49 <strong>Now you are informed. 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