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One of the highlights of iOS 7, apart from its redesign, would be an increased in security namely through the Activation Lock feature which would require the user to enter a password if they wish to wipe the phone, ultimately deterring thieves from stealing the phone and reselling it. The feature joins Find My iPhone in adding to the list of security features of the iPhone, but unfortunately thanks to a loophole in Siri, Find My iPhone can actually be disabled through it.

It has been discovered that even if you were to put a passcode lock on your iPhone, by enabling Siri, you will be able to enable Airplane Mode which would ultimately disable Find My iPhone. This isn’t so much a bug but more of an oversight especially since Siri has now been given more functionality with the update. We expect Apple will want to swiftly address this issue if they hope that the new iOS 7 update will be a secure one. In any case there’s still the Activation Lock feature that thieves need to go through if they wish to completely wipe the device and resell it, but for now they are still able to disable Find My iPhone which would make it harder for them to be tracked down.

Siri Can Enable Airplane Mode In iOS 7 Even With Passcode Lock original content from Ubergizmo.

With Apple’s new iOS 7 operating system, millions of smartphone owners will be able to block annoying callers for the first time.

Harder, faster, better, stronger, these tend to be adjectives used to describe different ways that we always seek to improve ourselves as well as the surrounding around us. After Apple’s rollout of the iOS 7 as well as iTunes 11.1, it seems that there is something else that Apple did. That so happens to be an increase in the limit for App Store downloads that were initiated via cellular networks, and the new figure to represent this would be 100MB per app restriction, making it double the previous cap of 50MB.

This increase in over-the-air downloads could not be introduced in a timelier manner, considering how it is just a couple of days before both the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c are launched to the general masses. The new iPhone 5s flagship device is tipped to continue pushing development of advanced apps in the right direction, thanks to the increased hardware performance underneath the hood. Of course, once again, do bear in mind that this cap increase will “reveal itself” so to speak, when you want to download more than 100MB of data via a cellular network, and it is always recommended to do so via a Wi-Fi network instead whenever possible, and on a full battery charge, too.

Apple Increases App Store Download Limit Via Cellular To 100MB original content from Ubergizmo.

So if you didn’t hear, iOS 7 came out earlier today. But of course you heard. For a while, it seemed like everybody with an iPhone was focused on one thing: updating their phone and staring at a progress bar that inched ever so slowly (if it didn’t give you an error, that is) towards iOS 7 Valhalla. It didn’t matter what the hell was going on around us, it didn’t matter if babies were crying or if lives were at stake or if the world was ending—we just wanted to get to iOS 7. Conan’s bit right here explains people’s obsession with iOS 7 perfectly (and hilariously).

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Happy iOS 7 day! Except for me. And legions of other iPhone owners who, for various reasons, had to activate their iPhone in the iOS 7 install process. Our phones are stuck in iOS 7 activation limbo.

Since early this morning, the activation servers are either down or very slow to respond, essentially rendering the phones useless and stuck in the install process. The situation is so bad, Apple reportedly issued an internal high-priority alert, notifying employees of the server issues that are preventing iPhone activation.

Apple better get its servers in line by Friday. There will be millions of new iPhones wanting to be activated.

In a perfect world, upgrading to iOS 7 would not require activation. However, if the install process fails, the best option is to restore to factory settings, which requires reactivating the phone. Or, perhaps, an owner decided it was a good time to do a fresh install, whipping the phone completely and starting fresh.

Or perhaps someone somewhere made a bad choice and bought a new iPhone today and needed to activate it.

Whatever the case, as noted by Apple’s internal memo and approximately a gazillion tweets, Apple’s iPhone activation servers are currently unresponsive for a lot of iPhone owners.