(Not sure if this is worldwide or only in some countries)
Updating to iOS 26.4DB2 will put your phone into a parental-restricted mode with adult websites blocked on all browsers, warning prompts every time you try to send or receive an explicit image on a messaging app, and all social media apps blocked on the App Store (in Australia)
The settings to disable this mode are locked off until you verify your age either with a credit card, photo ID, or though information Apple already has (like the age of your account).
I’ve been an apple user my entire adult life but this might finally be the thing that forces me off the platform. Do any other long term apple users have some tips about migrating? I’ve heard Ashai Linux is pretty good on mac hardware these days and I’ve been thinking about GrapheneOS for a while.
They should just be done with it and implant an id chip at birth
Data freely available to our capitalistic gods and politiciansits been 4 months and I am not regret about my switch to GrapheneOS. The only thing that can make this 100% perfect is creating a Google account that does not tie to your phone number.
So you need a phone number these days? That’s something I’ve read a lot of mixed reports about
in some cases where they have good enough info about you already (creating from an android phone that isn’t “fishy” enough, etc), you can create a google acc without associating a phone number, at least it’s not shown on the google account info menu.
yes some Play store apps are country specific so instead of switching my default country, which stupid Google only allows 1 per year btw, I want to create different profiles with different Google accounts. You cannot do that without showing that these accounts belong to whichever phone number you have
I just hope this doesnt impact macos until the end of the year, then I will be able to move to linux on my laptop.
You know they want to impose age verification on Linux as well right? Linux is still the way to go, but I am so not ok with what they ate trying to do.
I’m only on 26.3 and I got an iOS age verification popup today when opening an app for hospital/medical stuff. I was able to just close it and continue but it was surprising.
I would imagine the health app has multiple age groups. Where as an 18+ can probably save and share medical data to doctors or store it in iCloud, it’s probably illegal some places for minors to have health data being backed up to Apple’s shit.
i accepted this to use a health insurance app. anyway to go back from here?
Yeah, same, but if you close it and continue the app will treat you as if you are a child. You need to explicitly share with the app. What’s being shared seems to be just that you’re an adult or not an adult. It’s basically like an OS level “click here to confirm you are 18.” Except the OS knows your birthday.
26.3.1 will be the last version without the mandatory verification
I’ll figure out a way to bypass this or switch to Linux entirely.
And then probably end up in a camp.
I bet people will just accept it and not even think twice about it.
username checks out
For sure. Majority of people will happilly take a selfy and send it to whatever company without a second thought.
To be clear, these are Apple users. Most of them will take just about any abuse Apple is willing to throw their way.
Pretty much yeah
I see you too were born on January 1st 1970.
Majority will accept it, they dont care and governments and corpos like this
Wait, send explicit images? I’m not a child, I get that on these platforms my privacy is pretty well gone, but is it explicitly known (confirmed from the source) that these companies scan your images too?
That feels extra fucked up. Like "hold on a sec bucko let me check this photo you’re trying to send real quick to make sure it’s not titties "
where do you think they got the database for their porn generating llms?
They definitely do. That’s how you can search photos by their content on iOS or android.
but is it explicitly known (confirmed from the source) that these companies scan your images too?
https://www.howtogeek.com/how-to-automatically-blur-nsfw-content-on-iphone-or-mac/
Yes, doesn’t need to be confirmed in source when Apple makes it a feature
Alright, time to go to a different phone. Gonna buy Fairphone tomorrow.
(Or Motorola, if it’s true that it’s gonna have GrapheneOS on it).
Or Motorola, if it’s true that it’s gonna have GrapheneOS on it
It will likely be on a specific future model
I just installed Graphene OS on my Pixel 6 yesterday and it runs like a champ. You should be able to pick up a used Pixel 6 or newer for pretty cheap as another option
prompts every time you try to send or receive an explicit image on a messaging app
Does this mean they caved in to the UK’s client-side scanning stuff after all?
KDE has some themes that mimic different apple desktop versions
It’s under settings > Apple account (the bubble with your name if you’re signed in) > age range for apps.
The first time you click it you’re asked to go ahead or update your birthday in the account first.
Inside you can pick to always, never or ask first before sharing your age range with some app and it says you can see what apps have asked for your age range.
Can I still pick 1/1/1900 when I update?
I’ve been an apple user my entire adult life
It’s time to grow up.
You think this isn’t coming to other devices? Google will presumably add this to Android and apps will follow suit by looking to the OS to verify your age so other forks will probably have to add it. Linux on smartphones is dead in the water so what’s the alternative?
I don’t give a shit what children see.
They’ll live.
Stop spying on adults.
I mean some shit you find online is pretty grim but when I was a kid I knew the internet was for adults and didn’t expect everything to be catered to me. Now the status quo seems to be “every website must be kid/advertiser friendly and PG13 by default, everything else must be locked behind a verification prompt”. How did we get here?
It’s just a facade to justify mining more data for power, influence and money.
Simple as that.
We let 5 companies control the internet. Instead of being the distributed thing it was dreamed up to be we allowed it to consolidate.
And it’s not like servers have gotten harder to run! Pirates serve terabytes of data that’s straight-up illegal! Your fuckin’ commercial connection should be plenty for any damn thing you want.
