# Apple ships Lockdown Mode for high-risk users

Date: 2022

## The fact

In 2022 Apple announced and later shipped Lockdown Mode, a completed high-risk-user integrity instrument under [Cook](/people/tim-cook) aimed at mercenary spyware.

## Context

Neighbouring FBI 2016 is a different encryption fight. Neighbouring CSAM 2021 is a different client-side design. He did not write a surveillance-export statute.

FBI 2016 is neighbouring encryption. CSAM 2021 is neighbouring client-side scanning. ATT 2021 is neighbouring tracking.

Tim Cook has been Apple CEO since 24 August 2011. He does not write a DOJ complaint, a Commission DMA decision, an Irish Finance Act, or a Chinese Cyberspace Administration rule. Steve Jobs is a different, dead person. A product launch is not a labour statute. A privacy keynote is not a completed DMA compliance certificate. Keep those dates separate. A 10-K climate page is not a unique ppm. An assembler audit is not a unique suicide count as his personal tally. A DMA listing is not a completed sideload world. A DOJ complaint is not a breakup. TSMC fabricates; Foxconn assembles; App Review enforces.

## Evidence and sources

Apple carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [personal-data-protection](/drivers/personal-data-protection): a completed optional hardened mode is an attempted journalist-and-dissident integrity instrument.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 2022 Lockdown Mode announcement and shipment, independently reported.

Not established: that mercenary spyware ended, or a unique later targeting coefficient from the support page.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Security teams designed. High-risk users opted in. Spyware vendors sat as neighbouring firms. He did not sit as an export-control officer.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Apple ships Lockdown Mode for high-risk users, not a later speech about Apple ships Lockdown Mode for high-risk users.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Apple ships Lockdown Mode for high-risk users on 2022-07-06 is not a licence to treat every later Apple communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Apple ships Lockdown Mode for high-risk users into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He shipped as CEO. Security teams designed. High-risk users opted in. Spyware vendors sat as neighbouring firms. He did not sit as an export-control officer. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Tim Cook: https://factrail.ai/people/tim-cook

## Drivers

- Personal-Data Protection: https://factrail.ai/drivers/personal-data-protection
- Digital-Rights and Platform-Power Regulation: https://factrail.ai/drivers/tech-digital-rights-regulation

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-lockdown-mode-spyware-2022-07-06/
- https://www.apple.com/newsroom/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/aapl-lockdown-mode-2022