iOS 17.5 adds a new “Repair Mode”

The new Beta 4 of iOS 17.5 adds a new mode for when we leave our phone at the technical serviceit is therefore no longer necessary to deactivate the “Find my iPhone” option with all the disadvantages that this entails.

If you have already left your iPhone for repair, One of the first things they ask you to do is turn off the “Find My iPhone” option.

on the phone. This means that you will no longer be able to search for your phone from any device with your iCloud account, and anyone will be able to activate it with their account if they find it. In principle this should not be a problem since your iPhone is in an authorized technical service, but there is another problem that you may not have thought about but which has recently happened to many users after the update to iOS 17.3.

Remember that this update added a new security mechanism which means that for certain changes that we want to make to our phone we have to wait a little before they come into effect. One of these changes is precisely the deactivation of the “Find my iPhone” option, which causes sIf you have not thought about deactivating it before contacting technical support, you will have to wait an hour

in the Apple Store before you can deactivate it, a major inconvenience.

This new “Repair Mode” option is not yet ready to use, and can only be activated from the “Find” app when trying to remove the iPhone from your Apple account, but it presents the disadvantage of not being reversible, and thenOr it is not recommended to use this new feature until it works as it should. Remember that this is a beta version and therefore it is normal that we find things that do not work as they should. He who is warned is warned.