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There is a reason why POTUS can't have an iPhone.


He has three according to an earlier times article: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/24/us/politics/trump-phone-s...


The President in fact uses an iPhone. More than one, in fact.


Obama used a Blackberry for years before eventually switching to a hardened Galaxy S4 that was so locked down that "it doesn’t take pictures, you can’t text, the phone doesn’t work, you can’t play your music on it" [1]

Trump, on the other hand, does use an iPhone but doesn't have it checked by security experts as often as his aides would like [2]

[1] https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/obama-ditches-blackberr...

[2] https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/21/trump-phone-securi...


Do you have a source for this? A casual search online shows that both Obama and Trump use(d) iPhones in office.




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