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I continue to find Lockdown mode frustratingly insulting. Just give me the individual options (too) darnit.

Like "No facetime and message attachments from strangers, no link previews, no device connections", yes, please, I don't want dickpics from strangers.

"No javascript JIT or shared photo albums" no, I actually do want to be able to see friend's albums, and also want my battery to last longer due to optimizing JS.

How hard is it to keep the Lockdown Mode toggle, but also add "no link previews, no facetime calls from strangers, never join insecure wifi networks automatically" as separate option toggles I can turn on if I just want those?

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Lockdown mode could be life or death for some users. Adding toggles and partial states increases complexity and risk.

Perhaps it's time to acknowledge you probably don't know what another persons situation is. Instead of trying to tell them what to do, allow them to choose.

No, lockdown mode isn't a feature for you to do random things. It's a feature to keep gays in Saudi Arabia alive. Non-Han Chinese alive in China. Journalists in Mexico alive.

If they have the option to turn off the life saving measure they will. Thats the way it goes. Bc we don't know which one is the life saving measures, and they depend on each other anyway

You guys are incredibly selfish and self centered to be acting this way

The average Non-Han Chinese person doesn't know lockdown mode exists.

If you want to frame it as a life-saving feature, it should be on by default and impossible to turn off, or at the very least should be a required prompt during initial phone setup.

I'm asking for something that will make more people more secure, since I personally know plenty of people who want iMessage security, but for the web to still be functional (i.e. JIT to work).

> If they have the option to turn off the life saving measure they will

Then they'll just turn off all of lockdown mode, like they do now, to see a good friend's photo album. Great.

... I feel like we're talking past each other, and frankly with your tone of voice you're clearly not going to listen to anything anyone says on this, so there's not really any point in having this discussion at all.

I’m glad you know more any a person’s life than they do. Incredible

Okay, if it's that serious than apple should simply turn it on for everyone. Having toggles for Lockdown mode adds complexity and risk.

The number of users who currently know they need to toggle on lockdown, and would be confused by having toggles under it like "Disable JIT, Disable link previews", etc, is approximately 0.

The number of users who would turn on "disable link previews" and be more secure, but won't enable all of lockdown, is at least me, so that's more than 0. By that logic, it follows that splitting it out makes more users more secure, right?

Let me know where I'm wrong there. Do you legitimately think that there's risk of users knowing they need lockdown mode being unable to find it if there's additional settings added? I guess apple can't add any new settings anywhere.

Do you think that more settings means apple is more likely to introduce a bug that impacts security? I guess apple shouldn't be allowed to add any new settings anywhere.

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