IOS – macOS Automator : is there an event for “iOS device connected”

Currently there aren't any vulnerabilities that can be used remotely to access data like this that I know of.

If someone had physical access to the device, then they could access any data on it, as the disk isn't encrypted. Of course, the high retail value etc would mean most thieves would likely just wipe and sell it, rather than try to extract data.

In short, right now there aren't any active exploits that allow remote data access (though there have been ones in the past involving tiffs and pdfs that may have allowed this).

If the device was stolen, you are out of luck though, even with a passcode lock.

It's possible to set up two things to mitigate this:

1. Get the passcode wrong 10 times, and device is wiped
2. Find my iPhone app from iCloud allows you to remotely wipe the device

You can hold down the control key or click with your right mouse button and select save as... But I must admit that doesn't work always because some downloads aren't clicked on. I personally dislike this solution because you have to click more ( but save as already gives you more to click then needed in my opinion ;) )

You can do this with this workaround using automator:

1. Open the Automator tool

2. Create a new "Folder Action" type document.

3. Assign the Folder Action to the Downloads folder.

4. Add these actions (in order): Move Finder Items, Reveal Finder Items, Name Single Item.

5. Set the "Move Finder Items" action to use the Downloads folder as it's default (or whichever folder you are most likely to move things to - I use Downloads because most of the time I'm moving files into an archive structure and want it to be easy to skip this process by just hitting Return and leaving the file in Downloads when I don't do that.)

6. Open the options for the "Move Finder Items" action and tick the checkbox for "Show this action when the workflow runs."

7. Open the options for the "Name Single Item" action and tick the checkbox for "Show this action when the workflow runs."

As quoted from: https://superuser.com/questions/201298/to-prompt-a-folder-location-when-safari-downloads-a-file