apple quietly added a feature that reboots your iphone if it stays locked for 72 hours police started finding phones mysteriously restarting inside evidence lockers and thought it was some kind of bluetooth conspiracy between devices it wasn't. apple built a timer directly into the secure enclave, the most protected chip on the phone after 72 hours of no passcode entry, the phone reboots itself and locks all your sensitive data behind encryption that even forensic tools can't easily crack the idea was simple, if someone takes your phone you have 72 hours before it basically becomes a brick to anyone but you the forensic industry's response?they built a new device called GrayKey Preserve, designed to freeze your phone's state before the 72 hours runs out so they can still extract your data apple didn't make your phone unhackable. it started a countdown and now the people trying to get in are just racing the clock