iOS 17.3 Stolen Device Protection and YubiKeys

[WolfSnap]

Last year, when Apple enabled YubiKey support, I turned on the feature. I was trying to prevent the exact issue that Apple fixed in 17.3 with Stolen Device Protection.

Anyways, now that 17.3 is a thing, is continuing to use a security key for my AppleID even worthwhile? Apple's implementation is kinda so-so anyways IMHO; it doesn't let the key be an option.. it's either security key ONLY or you can use the normal 2FA stuff how they did it before 16.3.

Thoughts?

 

[Puonti]

One thing that comes to mind is that SDP is currently limited to iPhone, so if you're at risk of having your iPad passcode shoulder-surfed outside of a familiar location security keys might still be useful to you in the way you describe.

 

[WolfSnap]

One thing that comes to mind is that SDP is currently limited to iPhone, so if you're at risk of having your iPad passcode shoulder-surfed outside of a familiar location security keys might still be useful to you in the way you describe.

iPad will happily change the password after entering the passcode — no security key required. 🙄