Lockdown Mode
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
5recommend
1warn against
Jan 31, 2026first mention
Aug 13, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Apple's security posture with lockdown mode”
Show 2 more
“Lockdown mode lessens that surface.”
“consider using lockdown mode”
Caveats and dissent
“I find it so frustrating that Lockdown Mode is so all-or-nothing.”
Threads where it came up
- Apple says no one using Lockdown Mode has been hacked with spyware 3 mentions
- FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled 3 mentions
- A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10 2 mentions
- How Obama's BlackBerry got secured (2023) 1 mention
- The Israeli spyware firm that accidentally just exposed itself 1 mention
- FBI unable to extract data from iPhone 13 in Lockdown Mode in high profile case [pdf] 1 mention
Data: lockdown-mode.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 11
“Lockdown mode?”
“Apple's security posture with lockdown mode”
“having Lockdown mode set doesn't seem to affect anything I do.”
“Lockdown mode lessens that surface.”
“it does more than disabling attachments”
“The impact to my life has been minor.”
“consider using lockdown mode”
“I find it so frustrating that Lockdown Mode is so all-or-nothing.”
“FBI unable to extract data from iPhone 13 in Lockdown Mode”
Looks like it’s a feature: https://support.apple.com/en-us/105120
The things that Lockdown Mode disables actually massively reduce attack surface at the expense of user experience. For example, Graphite, the spyware used by Paragon gets stopped in its tracks by Lockdown Mode as it disables link previews in iMessage (probably one of the more vulnerable apps due to it’s system privileges alongside Safari I believe) which can prevent zero-click attacks: https://citizenlab.ca/research/