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

submitted 14 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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[–] romanticremedy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Fuuuuck with apple doing this, I wonder how long we have until this BS enters Android and Linux Kernel.

[–] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 19 points 5 hours ago

Lmao good fucking luck enforcing this on Linux. There's no central authority to handle age verification, and even if there was, it'd take less than a week for someone to make a patched version of whatever tool they use that just... Autoreports that you're an adult no matter what.

[–] kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Well when we have to comply we can make a build flag everyone shut toggle off...

[–] quips@slrpnk.net 12 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

I suggest simply never complying. Anyone who does is a traitor. This is FOSS, they have no control over us, ZERO power to enforce compliance.

[–] kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I suggest simply never complying.

While this is the best. it is not feasible. Not many open source projects can just pay millions on fines and not think about it. Idiots making these laws cant enforce it but they will try in the only way they know. Fine and fine and fine untill a project dies.