Apple iOS 9.3.1 bug lets anyone access photos, contacts on iPhone 6s series

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First up, one needs to activate Siri, which can be done by long pressing the home screen or saying Hey Siri. Next, ask Siri to search Twitter to which Siri will respond by asking what to search for. Mention ‘@gmail.com’ or simply the domain name of any email provider with ‘@’ prefix.

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Siri will then show a list of Tweets in the search results, from where one needs to select a tweet with full e-mail address. Now, one can take advantage of this loophole only on iPhone 6s and 6s Plus because of 3D Touch. So, one needs to long press the email address until the pop-up appears and from there on, users can click on ‘Add new contact’ to access photos on the device or ‘Add to existing contacts’ to view contacts on it.

The hack might sound easy, but, if we go by reports, it requires several attempts before Siri responds. According to DailyDot, “The exploit works with iOS 9 through the newly released 9.1.3.”

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Users wil have wait for Apple to fix the glitch. Meanwhile, the devices can be protected by disabling Siri access to photos by going to Privacy option in Settings, then Photos and disable Siri there. Also, users can disable Siri from the device till Apple comes up with a solution.