Apple beefs up iPad Pro security by disabling the microphone when the case is closed, a feature which was previously reserved for the Mac.
Apple introduced a feature with the 2018 MacBook lineup, allowing the microphone to be disabled whenever the display lid was closed.
This measure was put in place to prevent eavesdropping, preventing malicious apps to tap into the microphone to gather extra data about you.
Fast forward to 2020 and the feature has come to the new iPad Pro
lineup. The way it works is pretty simple - just close the lid of the
case on the iPad Pro, which has to be MFi compliant, and
the microphone
is physically disconnected to prevent any sort of eavesdropping or
malicious code from running if iPadOS is compromised in some way.
more
