Security News > 2023 > September > China reportedly bans iPhones from more government offices
Analysis Chinese authorities have reportedly banned Apple's iPhones from some government offices.
News of Beijing's ban was reported by the Wall Street Journal, which mentioned people familiar with the matter as having said employees at some central government regulators were told not to use iPhones for work or bring them into the office.
In March 2023 China called on Apple to make unspecified security improvements.
With iPhones being so seductively usable, China barring them from government offices is therefore sensible - with or without a hint of some vulnerability or backdoor that makes Apple's wares dangerous to Beijing.
China has good reason not to antagonize Apple, which does most of its manufacturing in the Middle Kingdom.
If China has decided to hurt Apple it picked an interesting time to do so.