> In one encouraging sign, some of the most recent attacks failed against users who had activated Apple’s recently introduced Lockdown Mode, which stops some communications from unknown callers and reduces the number of programs that are automatically invoked.
I'd not heard about Apple's "Lockdown Mode" (which applies to both computers and phones). Per a support page[1], there's a lot of small tweaks that reduce convenience of the devices, but it sounds like they will fundamentally still _mostly work_.
Is "Lockdown Mode" a well-known thing that I just missed? It feels like Apple has put a target on things like URL previews for malicious actors, while also labeling the defense mechanism as an expert-only tool.