A group of friends in India evaded Apple’s restrictions on AirPods Pro 2 and location, managed to enable all the features implemented in Apple’s headphones
The AirPods Pro 2 are the clear example that They are not just common headphones for listening to music or other content with extraordinary quality. Apple has given them new functions related to improving hearing health, something that attracted attention in several regions of the world but in one very particular one, they did something that surprised everyone and everyone. sayings Features not available in Indiaso three friends They came up with a trick to bypass Apple’s location restrictions with the help of a microwave oven and aluminum foil. How did they achieve it?
The AirPods Pro 2 have very important functions for people with hearing problems
It is the story of Jayashimha, Arnav Bansal and Rithvik Vibhu, three friends who came together for a common cause: Enable full use of AirPods Pro 2 health features to help your hearing-impaired grandmothers. The first one went to a store with his father to buy AirPods for his grandmother, sadly, when they were released, they did not find the function on the iPhone.
India is one of the countries where, due to health regulatory issues, Apple features are not available. He felt disappointed although that did not stop him from achieving his goal. The friends who are based in Bengaluru they built what is knownaccording to WIRED, like a faraday cage. With the help of a microwave and aluminum foil, managed to evade location restrictions to allow the AirPods to have all the functionalities.
The three friends are part of a technological collective that is dedicated to the contribution of information about hardware and software, this was where They shared their feat to the world through the count of. After what was achieved received several requests from other people in India who have the same problemthey bought these AirPods because of the features they have and other older adults have not been able to use them.
AirPods Pro 2 that would work for the grandmothers of the three friends
How they managed to evade the restrictions on the AirPods Pro 2
In addition to building the Faraday cage, They relied on a 10th generation iPad with Wi-Fi. It is a complicated task that requires a lot of technique and some patience, although before entering into the procedure, required significant research into how iOS sets location of a device in the real world.
Wi-Fi devices are subject to some checks, e.g. Apple servers detect which Apple Store region they are connected toin addition to the time zones, languages and regions where they are configured. The Cupertino mobile operating system launches a web request that is returned with a country code according to the location given by the IP.
AirPods Pro with an iPhone and iPad Pro
Everything could have been changed except for the IP address. There’s no way you can get around that easily, not even with a VPN. Curiously, also iOS puts the magnifying glass on a device when it connects to Wi-Fi and IDs of set of services, this when more wireless networks are exposed. At the same time also track the MAC addresses of other devices and even routers.
This is where the famous Faraday cage comes from, They blocked the electromagnetic signals reaching the iPad to make it appear that it was the only device in the environment. The microwave came into action to block the signals. This is because the Electromagnetic waves from the oven have the same frequency as Wi-Fi signals. With the help of an open source Wi-Fi location database and an SSID looping tool, they managed to evade the restrictions and the iPad was placed in a location as far away as California.
Apple could block these types of procedures in the future
AirPods Pro 2 in India managed to evade Apple’s location restrictions
WIRED attempted to contact Apple so it could give its point of view on this case. He went beyond the matter and asked dedicated researchers about the possibility that this story could be blocked by those in Cupertino. A cybersecurity professor, Alan Woodward, declared that what the three friends achieved is “very interesting.” It requires a lot of technical knowledge to be able to avoid “geofencing”, just as they did with the Faraday cage and the software. Although it highlights that Apple can, at any time, block the entire procedure that the friends did.
As soon as Apple can comment on this event, the friends are already launching a second stage of the Faraday cage. They intend to do more experiments but in a safer way. Friends’ grandmothers can now use AirPods, in the case of Arnav Bansal his grandmother uses headphones to watch TV. Now with AirPods it is possible for you to enjoy your programs in a pleasant way despite having a certain condition of hearing loss. Will there be a response to what happened from Apple?
You can follow iPadized in Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter (X) consult or consult our Telegram channel to stay up to date with the latest technology news.
Source: ipadizate.com
