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Apple rolls out OS-level age verification in latest iOS 26.4 dev beta (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 hours ago by freedickpics@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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(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.

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[–] shrek_is_love@lemmy.ml 27 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

When I first decided to switch to Linux, I started exclusively using apps that were available on Linux. This way I was able to gradually transition my workflows one app at a time without any rush. When I was ready to install Linux, I did it on a new computer so I still had access to everything on the old computer and there was no risk of going computer-less if the installation went sideways.

Also, keep in mind that Asahi only works on M1 and M2 Macs. (If you have an old Intel Mac, you can just run normal Linux without Asahi)

Oh and Veronica Explains has a great video about her experience with Asahi.

[–] freedickpics@lemmy.ml 8 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

This might be a stupid question but when using ashai can you run any normal linux software or does it have to be specifically built for arm64/apple silicon?

[–] harsh3466@lemmy.ml 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

It's gotta be built for arm64

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 4 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Can you use the makefile and compile?

[–] trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 hours ago

Yes, you can. It's just an ARM64 computer. The only special consideration is that the kernel uses 16K pages instead of 4K pages, but that's not something I've encountered problems with.

[–] harsh3466@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 hours ago

I'm pretty sure you can. I never did because I ended up having to go back to macos on the machine I had.

[–] snek_boi@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I hope someday any normal Linux software will be usable in Apple hardware. Unfortunately, there are hurdles.

One of the biggest hurdles was getting code accepted into the Linux kernel.

This became very frustrating for the previous Asahi Linux lead developer. He would push upstream code and the Linux developers would not accept it.

Why didn’t they accept it? Because it was written in memory-safe Rust and not in memory-unsafe C. Old Linux developers don’t want to deal with Rust. So they just refuse to include Asahi Linux updates into normal Linux software.

[–] cole 1 points 1 hour ago

you're losing a lot of nuances here, just want to add for other readers.

there was and are good reasons for why code wasn't accepted