One of the biggest new features Apple has introduced in the last year or so has been the iMessaging service. Like the BlackBerry messaging service, iMessage connects iOS users through a convenient messaging service that works over WiFi or cellular data. iMessage has largely been trouble free apart from the occasional outages, but last December a nasty bug was discovered in the system.
What happened was that if your iPhone was stolen, and you did a remote wipe and deactivated it from your carrier, and changed your Apple ID, it would still receive iMessages to your ID. Needless to say this was a huge privacy concern. Having your stolen phone still receive your iMessages was not a situation you’d want to find yourself in.
With iOS 6 Apple has fixed this long standing problem by placing new security measures. Now if your phone is stolen, all you need to do is change your Apple ID password. Changing the password will force the stolen device to prompt for a password in order to continue receiving and sending iMessages from your account. In addition to this if you remote wipe your device, it will no longer receive iMessages. Can’t believe it took this long, but at least the agony is over.