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OneKey Maintainer Sets iPhone 17 and iOS 27 as Cold Wallet Minimum

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.

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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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