> A person suspecting their iPhone has been hacked has no way to check it. Apple only offers a cope mechanism in the form of "lockdown mode", which likely can be bypassed just as well.

In the past, Apple alerted users (journalists, political activists, dissidents) when a "state-level actor" attempted to hack their iPhones [1].

Apparently, the FBI couldn't get past Lockdown Mode: FBI stymied by Apple’s Lockdown Mode after seizing journalist’s iPhone [2]"

And don't forget about Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE) that debuted on iPhone 17 and iPhone Air [3]:

MIE is described as the industry's first always-on, comprehensive memory safety protection, built on the Enhanced Memory Tagging Extension (EMTE) in synchronous mode, combined with secure typed allocators and tag confidentiality protections.

[1]: https://www.sentinelone.com/blog/so-state-sponsored-attacker...

[2]: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/fbi-stymied-by-a...

[3]: https://security.apple.com/blog/memory-integrity-enforcement