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Apple’s Lockdown Mode is good for security — but its notifications are baffling
Lockdown Mode is an "extreme protection" feature that's good for at-risk users, but its notifications are increasingly confusing.
Apple launched Lockdown Mode in 2022, and since then the security feature is considered a must-use for dissidents in corrupt countries, human-rights defenders in oppressive regimes, and journalists speaking truth to power. In practice, Lockdown Made removes some normal Apple device features, such as fonts loaded from the internet that can track you, the ability to receive certain types of files, your location data from photos that you share, support for 2G cellular connectivity, and letting people who haven’t contacted you before reach you over FaceTime and iMessage; although it’s unclear if the latter is the case (more on that later). We exchanged text, emojis, a cat picture, and iMessage “stickers.” All of these went through, except for the stickers, which turned to either a Unicode character of a question mark, or a nondescript file attachment, which can’t be opened, even if you tap on it:
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