(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.
its 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
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 don’t want to live on this planet anymore
I love how big corp is already ready. It’s almost as if they somehow knew all along that all the govs with bribable legislators would be making laws they all seemed to arbitrarily adopt at once. Can’t wait for the shill AI slop response to this comment making it seem like a good idea.
You elected the government and regulator who caused this. Make sure it doesn’t happen again.
I sure as hell didn’t vote for them. But regardless of the government these laws always seem to have bipartisan support. I’ve avoided this crap so far with VPNs and fake IDs but something baked into the OS like this I haven’t been able to fool. Yet
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?
You think google wont do this?
Can you try to send an explicit image while offline?
So now California has a governor pretending to be pro-Palestine to do damage control while signing laws that give Zionist corporations more control over your data and hardware
So what’s actually going on in Cali for them to have such a douchebag governor?
Probably strong influence from corporations, billionaires, other wealthy people, and NIMBYs, along with fearmongering from establishment media to distract from actual problems. And Democrats realizing they can’t win on a pro-genocide platform so now they have to at least pretend to give a shit.
If you ever thought Gavin was anti-Trump, I have news for you 😄
Oh he’s anti-Trump alright. But that’s just meaning that he wants to take Trump’s place.
Fuck Trump tho am I rite?
Yes but Trump isn’t the one doing the age verification mandates
i use fedora asahi remix with kde on M1, so far it’s great except the battery life is not as good as in macos but i don’t care … finally i escaped the shitty glass design among other shitty things apple does… and have been using Grephene for more than a year, It’s honestly the most stable, seamless OS i tried, the kind of OS that just works and doesn’t annoy you. imo even better than ios !
Majority will accept it, they dont care and governments and corpos like this
I bet people will just accept it and not even think twice about it.
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.
For sure. Majority of people will happilly take a selfy and send it to whatever company without a second thought.
username checks out
“Must be outside of California, Colorado, and Brazil to download this Linux ISO”
“Must be outside of California, Colorado, and Brazil to proceed with installation”
I’m in canada!
oh i’m not in California, I’m in Egypt. I’m waist deep in denial.
Which do y’all think is worse? [Serious]
I don’t do serious, sorry
Eventually: must be in Antarctica to use this distro
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
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.
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 find it odd to protect children they will stalk the hell out of us but won’t arrest known pedophiles …
I hate the world
Also they’ll deny trans kids puberty blockers which are proven to be safe and reversible, and the alternative creates harm.
And they’ll censor the internet for ‘children’ (a 17 year old is not a child) to prevent them finding community, support or education outside their IRL religious and harmful bubbles.
It was never about actually protecting children
Yeah apparently it’s fine for them to fuck kids but too immoral to risk kids seeing people fucking.
It’s not to protect children though. It’s for political surveillance.
Exactly. Governments around the world, including the U.S., of course, have made it crystal clear through their actions that they don’t give a fuck about protecting children.
Better to just hate the whole Epstein Class. They trash the world for everyone else…
We’ve had a name for them for the last 200 years: the capitalist class, or to be more precise, the haute bourgeoisie. The 1% of the 1%.
the haute bourgeoisie. The 1% of the 1%.
The painful irony being that the bourgeoisie were still below the nobles
If everyone voting for these age requirements don’t also vote to require you to use an ID to unlock the safety on a gun or remove a knife from the knife rack, they aren’t voting on this to protect the children.
Knives and guns need age verification before someone seeing Kate Upton showing her breasts.
Im going side with none of it needs age verification, and all of it needs parental guidance
At least knives have a use outside of killing
In America.
