TREE NEWS reports: OneKey maintainer Yishi published a guide arguing a disconnected iPhone is only one precaution, not a cold wallet on its own. He sets a floor of iPhone 17 or newer running iOS 27 or above, with migration to a newer device every one to two years, citing BFU/AFU key states, USB attack surfaces and forensic vendors. CBP logged 55,318 device searches in fiscal 2025, including 4,396 advanced searches.
OneKey Maintainer Sets iPhone 17 and iOS 27 as Cold Wallet Minimum
This is a notable escalation in cold-storage hygiene rhetoric: a hardware-wallet maintainer treating a phone's OS version and model generation as a security boundary, not a convenience. It effectively narrows the viable device pool for anyone considering an air-gapped iPhone setup, and raises the recurring cost of staying current. The cited CBP device-search figures give the argument a state-access dimension beyond ordinary malware risk. Whether other wallet makers adopt similarly strict device floors — and how users weigh annual hardware churn against that threat model — is the open question.
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