Now days, I have to unlock my iPhone by entering my passcode every time I connect a lightning cable and sync it with my Mac … and I could swear that I didn't used to have to do that.
Has something changed, or am I misremembering?
Anyone know how to get the iPhone and Mac to trust one another permanently?
iMac 27″ 5K, macOS 13.1
Apple changed the way that worked because of a recently discovered vulnerability that would allow a hacker to create an unprotected backup of an iOS device without the knowledge of the owner, so Apple add a requirement to always require a passcode to be entered on the phone before backing up to a computer. This to assure that the backup was intentional.
If you want details you can find them in these two links:
Apple changed the way that worked because of a recently discovered vulnerability that would allow a hacker to create an unprotected backup of an iOS device without the knowledge of the owner, so Apple add a requirement to always require a passcode to be entered on the phone before backing up to a computer. This to assure that the backup was intentional.
If you want details you can find them in these two links:
A vulnerability was discovered that would allow a hacker to create an unprotected backup of an iOS device without the knowledge of the owner, so Apple add a requirement to always require a passcode to be entered on the phone before backing up to a computer. This to assure that the backup was intentional.
I turned on the auto sync option, and even then it asked for a passcode.
There appears to no longer be a way to force a trust between the iPhone and Mac.
Unfortunately, it sometimes takes a while for the iPhone and Mac to begin negotiations, and it's pretty easy to think the sync is going and walk away, only to come back and find the iPhone prompting for its passcode.
You don't always need a passcode - if you've initiated a sync between the iPhone and Mac and entered a passcode, the trust will last a while and you can sync password-less for a while before requiring the passcode again, so the trust eventually expires and you have to enter the passcode again.
Connect the phone to the Mac and open up the normal window to back up or sync with the Mac.
Is there a check mark in the box next to "Automatically sync when this iPhone is connected"?
If yes, uncheck the box, disconnect the iPhone, restart your Mac, connect the phone again and see if that helps.
It does help on my laptop running Big Sur. I have not checked on a Mac yet running Monterey or Ventura
Yeah, that option was always there … but what I'm looking for is how to get the iPhone and Mac to trust one another whenever connected.
This option will alway initiate a sync whenever connected, but sometimes I don't want to immediately sync. I just want the trust to exist.
Yeah, that option was always there … but what I'm looking for is how to get the iPhone and Mac to trust one another whenever connected.
That option will alway initiate a sync whenever connected, but sometimes I don't want to immediately sync. I just want the trust to exist.
I don't know how many times now I've initiated a sync, walked away and come back expecting the sync to be completed, but instead found a screen prompting for the lock code.
Not sure what I did, but I had to log out of my phone and into my media ID to get my wife's new iPhone working with Apple+ Premium.
Logged my phone back in to my email ID, and now there seems to be a permanent trust between my Mac and the phone - I no longer have to unlock my phone with each sync.
Forget what I said.
Somehow the machinations I went through switched the phone to back up to iCloud.
Resetting to a local backup brought with it the passcode prompts <sigh>.
Need to unlock iPhone when syncing with Mac
