Apple’s iOS 6, while being one of the most advanced operating systems from Apple in recent times, has faced a lot of criticism for some faulty bugs and glitches that came along with the OS, and one such bug among them was the iOS 6 stolen iPhone iMessage.
Now, per reports, the iMessages bug which allowed stolen iPhones to receive messages intended for the device's original owner,even after being remotely removed, has been fixed with iOS 6.
The iMessage bug was first reported in late 2011 when some users reported that while on iOS 5, their iPhones were stolen, and even after remotely wiping them the thief was still receiving iMessages intended for the owner of the device.
At that time, some users claimed that their stolen iPhones could still be reached via their iMessage details, even after remotely wiping the stolen device via Apple’s Find My iPhone service. It was also believed that as long as the original SIM stayed in the stolen iPhone, iMessages for the original user’s phone number would continue to be delivered, even after a remote wipe.
A Next Web report, that cited a person in knowledge of the situation, stated that according to the source “with knowledge of Apple’s steps to correct the matter, the issue has been fixed in iOS 6 through a variety of checks placed on iMessage. The most important of these is that Apple now uses its push systems to force a user to re-enter a password to use iMessage once your Apple ID credentials have been changed.This means that, if your phone is stolen, you can change your Apple ID password and all of your devices will require that password to be re-entered before anyone can use iMessage on it.”
Moreover, another safeguard triggers an iMessage shutdown when a new SIM card attached to a user's phone number is inserted into a new iPhone. This system also takes effect when a handset is remotely wiped.
iMessage was previously revealed as part of iOS 5 in 2011 as a proprietary data-based alternative to the common SMS text messaging. Moreover, a recent report credited Apple's messaging service as being a major factor in the decline of U.S. texting seen during Q3 2012.
