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There are a few configurations that I apply to almost every research iPhone. While these methods are documented publicly, the information is at many different places. Driven by laziness to search them on the Internet every time, I document them here, hoping that it also helps other researchers :) Logs Increase log level For many targets, Apple has predefined debug profiles. They will print contents to log messages that otherwise only show <private> . These profiles are publicly available . Following this post  one can also show all <private> logs with the following change: iPhone# vim /Library/Preferences/Logging/com.apple.system.logging.plist <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict>         <key>Enable-Logging</key>         <true/>         <key>Ena

Update: We wrote a paper with even more technical details :) iOS 15.0 introduces a new feature: an iPhone can be located with Find My even while the iPhone is turned "off". How does it work? Is it a security concern? I saw this feature rather early on one of my iPhones with an iOS 15 beta. Here's a screenshot I took in July. The user interface changed a little bit since then. It took a bit longer until the public realized this feature exists. One needs to update to iOS 15.0, use an iPhone that has location services enabled, a logged in user account, participates in the Find My network, etc. And the weirdest thing nobody does these days: One has to turn the iPhone off. But once Twitter found out, this took off. And so did the rumors how this was implemented. Apple's Always-on Processor (AOP) There's only little public documentation about the AOP. All chips and various embedded devices Apple manufactures run a real-time operating system, called RTKitOS. The AOP on

There's a new Bluetooth vulnerability collection, called BrakTooth . PoCs are under NDA until end of October. Are these bugs real? Do they affect more than the Cypress dev kit, for example, iPhones and MacBooks? Jan, who developed the Frankenstein emulator for Cypress chips and discovered the BlueFrag vulnerability within Android, joined my efforts in reproducing these bugs. All tooling we used is already public, as well as the BrakTooth vulnerability descriptions. We will not publish our own BrakTooth PoCs until the BrakTooth NDA ends to protect end users. Link Management Protocol If you're reading this and already have a background on Bluetooth, continue reading on the next section. Everyone else still needs to get familiar with an over 3k page long nightmare, called "Bluetooth Specification". All page numbers refer to version 5.2, even though version 5.3 was released recently. As of now, there's no 5.3 chip available. The Link Management Protocol (LMP) negoti