Initially, people did not realize that mobile phone privacy and security was a big issue. After Apple launched a webpage in September 2017 to introduce mobile phone privacy and security-related functions, the issue of mobile phone information security was frequently mentioned. , and the iPhone has always been called the most secure mobile phone on the market by users!
In fact, Apple has been working in this field for more than 10 years. Now, after multiple generations of evolution, the iOS system + iPhone hardware has built a more complete security barrier.
Why is the iPhone the most secure mobile phone on the market?
"Privacy and security will be laid out before product development"! Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of software engineering, explained. Apple product privacy and security work starts with four basic principles:
These four principles apply to the development of all Apple software and hardware products currently.
Because of the portable nature of a mobile phone, it "knows more", so the importance of privacy to an iPhone is completely different from that of a laptop or a desktop computer. As early as when they were developing the iPhone, they already knew very clearly how important security and privacy were to this device, so from the perspective of security and privacy, Apple's workload on the iPhone is greater and more important.
Apple products are unique in that they are designed around privacy and security from the beginning of the design process, rather than adding this feature at the end. Apple has always adhered to the four privacy principles, which takes data security as its foundation. It has set up a dedicated privacy and security team and ensures that they participate in the entire design process to ensure that these principles are implemented.
The “beginning” mentioned by Apple starts from chip design to system architecture design. This level of depth is beyond the reach of other manufacturers. What users see is the simplest part, such as Touch ID fingerprint unlocking or Face ID facial recognition that most iPhone users know. It may only take half a second for you and me, but behind it is everything from hardware to Software, long-term work of multiple teams.
Of course, in actual use, users often do not need to pay special attention to privacy and security functions when they are in effect, or are even invisible. For the general public, the best news related to security prevention is no news, and this seems to be the most ideal outcome.
For example, the moment the system is unlocked, or Safari incognito browsing, and the App location permission pop-up window that the system occasionally pops up, these are the large parts that the user can see, but the invisible parts, such as the chip With the security partition of iOS system, end-to-end encryption, etc., Apple actually does more behind-the-scenes work.
Using a car airbag as an analogyIt is said that the security and privacy functions are like necessary parts of the car. Users may not understand how it works or even know that it exists, but at critical moments, it can play a role. This is what Apple wants to see most. .
It is precisely because of this complete set of privacy and security methodologies and the matching work and engineering structure that the iPhone can say that it is the most secure mobile phone currently on the market.
And iOS 17 has our most advanced security features ever, including improved protection of all user information. The A16 and A17 series of chips are designed for security.
This is the “hardware-software-in-one” approach that Apple is good at, and it is precisely because of this approach that iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro are still the most secure mobile phones on the market.