Apple to undercut popular law-enforcement tool for cracking iPhones

A customer tests the features of the newly launched iPhone X at VIVA telecommunication store in Manama, Bahrain, November 3, 2017. REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed/File Photo

SAN FRANCISCO: Apple Inc said on June 13 it will change its iPhone settings to undercut the most popular means for law enforcement to break into the devices.

The company told Reuters it was aiming to protect all customers, especially in countries where phones are readily obtained by police or by criminals with extensive resources, and to head off further spread of the attack technique.