Of course it’s not safe once your system gets compromised, but what I meant is it only helps minimize the risk, not fully remove it. The best way to handle risk is still to spread your funds, don’t keep everything in one wallet that’s connected to your phone. And with this news, I think they’re talking about the advanced feature of the iPhone 17. I don’t even use iPhone myself, but you know how it goes, hackers will always adapt no matter what phone or tech comes out.
It can be a physical or software issues so hot wallets basically are never safe to store big fund. If you store big fund on a phone, you will have trouble some time in the future like you lose it somewhere, it breaks down physically or it has technical issues or hacks, whatsoever issues. You can have problems with smart phones from all brands, not only iPhone from Apple so security-wise practice is the same for all phone brand companies.
Phones are more sensitive and vulnerable with technical, physical issues as well as online threats from hackers. Lastly, the advice is always store big fund in cold wallets and always have different wallet backups for a single wallet. Even it is a hot wallet on a phone, you must have different wallet backups and this practice is like a standard.