iPhone lockscreen can be bypassed with new iOS 6.1 trick
By Aaron Souppouris on February 14, 2013 06:57 am @AaronIsSocial 29Comments A security flaw in Apple's iOS 6.1 lets anyone bypass your iPhone password lock and access your phone app, view or modify contacts, check your voicemail, and look through your photos (by attempting to add a photo to a contact). The method, as detailed by YouTube user videosdebarraquito, involves making (and immediately canceling) an emergency call and holding down the power button twice. We followed the steps and managed to access the phone app on two UK iPhone 5s running iOS
What the influencers are saying
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David Chartier
This is a ridiculous iOS 6.1 flaw, but publishing it doesn’t help anyone. It creates sensational headlines: http://t.co/zUdTB3dO
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Mariano M. del Río
RT @dragosr: iOS 6.1 bug for lock screen bypass, again. http://t.co/CHl7XiSo
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Tom Eston
RT @chriseng: iOS 6.1 lock screen bypass http://t.co/jdRy48xJ < Just like iOS 4. They call this "not learning from your mistakes."
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Eugene Kaspersky
iOS 6.1 bad luck again. First battery drain & overheat, now lockscreen bypass trick http://t.co/RijLBjXs
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Lookout
Take note, a security flaw in iOS 6.1 was found that allows you to bypass the lock screen: http://t.co/Np4v4A11
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The Verge
Bug in iOS 6.1 lets anyone bypass your iPhone lockscreen http://t.co/S4PmZIrR
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MC Petermann
RT @ryanaraine: iOS 6.1 screen lock bypass trick. access to contact list and phone calls but not much else http://t.co/TALCr6AK
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