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Apple rolls out OS-level age verification in latest iOS 26.4 dev beta

https://lemmy.ml/post/44086420

Apple rolls out OS-level age verification in latest iOS 26.4 dev beta - Lemmy

(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.

This is insane. They have to view your images to deem of they are explicit…

Basically a year away from a universal internet ID that will track all movements and can be restricted if your government doesn’t like you.

Apple already views your images for child porn.

www.bbc.com/news/technology-58145943

Apple defends new photo scanning child protection tech

The tech giant has insisted that its new technology will not be used to spy on its users.

joelfromaus Mar 6

Do they though? As a side note, I read the documentation for the proposed system of scanning and it was actually really well designed for privacy. The problem was if they were forced to expand the scope to include other material such as, for example, proof of protest against a regime.

Apple provides detailed reasoning behind abandoning iPhone CSAM detection

A child safety group pushed Apple on why the announced CSAM detection feature was abandoned, and the company has given its most detailed response yet as to why it backed off its plans.

AppleInsider

After commercial OS have age verification they will remove it from the programs because the age was already verified, right? (Padme asking Anakin)

shrek_is_love Mar 6

64bithero Mar 5

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

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%.

floofloof Mar 6

It’s not to protect children though. It’s for political surveillance.

TrackinDaKraken Mar 6

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.

shrek_is_love Mar 5

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.

Fedora Asahi Remix - Asahi Linux

freedickpics Mar 6

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 Mar 6

It’s gotta be built for arm64

driving_crooner Mar 6

Can you use the makefile and compile?

acantharea Mar 5

Lame - never updating my stuff and will move off smartphones.

Boomer Humor Doomergod Mar 6

Not buying a car made after 2018.

Not buying electronics made after 2025.

Simple as.

starblursd Mar 6

Sadly graphene will have to implement age verification too at some point as these laws spread like the ones in California that require ALL os providers including Linux to implement it albeit a pointless user dob input at account creation or be fined into the afterlife

Da Cap’n Mar 6

Yep, I’m not sure how come everyone thinks graphene will somehow be exempt.

They’re open source and their OEM partner, Lenovo is out of US sphere of influence. They can patch the code when it’s put on the phone, just like how manufacturers modify Android source code.

I hope GrapheneOS makes it easy to avoid and still verify integrity.

If they’re forced to have them in USA and EU, so be it. That’s their policy problem for their people. It’s a win for everyone else.

Boomer Humor Doomergod Mar 6

I’ll figure out a way to bypass this or switch to Linux entirely.

And then probably end up in a camp.

Captain Aggravated Mar 6

What…is this shit? What’s the real reason behind this? What senator or governor has a brother in law in the age verification business that got this corruptioned into being a thing all of a sudden?

bpalmerau Mar 6

Surveillance data

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).

Thank you, Tim Apple, for making 2026 the year of the Linux desktop (but not necessarily the Ubuntu, Fedora, or Mint desktop).

Tux Machines — Ubuntu, Fedora, Linux Mint Eye Age Verification Amid California Law Backlash

Octagon9561 Mar 6

If the West follows into the footsteps of the propaganda they are spreading against China, I’d rather go live in China because at least there people don’t live paycheck to paycheck despite working multiple jobs. Every accusation against China was a confession.

Johnny_Arson [they/them]Mar 6

Same with DPRK.

Scrollone Mar 6

You can’t live paycheck to paycheck when you don’t have a paycheck ;)

They’re going to burn this in all the way from the sub-microprocessor DRM/TPM to the browser, aren’t they?

Trusted execution environment - Wikipedia

You can build browsers from source. And import open hardware from China. RISCV is getting close to usable, these days.

You can buy them now, because the US hasn’t banned their import yet, but that’s what these laws will lead to.

hornedfiend Mar 6

Good, I am waiting on my brand new Fairphone 6.

ScoffingLizard Mar 7

It’s awesome. Welcome!

romanticremedy Mar 6

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

kylian0087 Mar 6

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

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 Mar 6

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.

ScoffingLizard Mar 7

Something in gut hub can still be “in development.” Nobody has to comply with every regulation before they are finished. Goddamn these vultures. They’ve been nonstop since SOPA and PIPA back in 2010 or whenever.

Is it regional? Am I safe to update in Europe?

I bet people will just accept it and not even think twice about it.

sudoer777 Mar 6

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

ScoffingLizard Mar 7

So what’s actually going on in Cali for them to have such a douchebag governor?

thethunderwolf Mar 6

“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”

MinnesotaGoddam Mar 6

oh i’m not in California, I’m in Egypt. I’m waist deep in denial.

ScoffingLizard Mar 7

Which do y’all think is worse? [Serious]

marcie (she/her)Mar 6

Eventually: must be in Antarctica to use this distro

Kilgore Trout Mar 7

Can you try to send an explicit image while offline?

ScoffingLizard Mar 7

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.

StarryPhoenix97 Mar 7

I know this isn’t the point of the article, but I’m starting to get really pissy about software updates implementing high-level non-security related changes to my fucking fully paid for device!

It doesn’t do anything but I’m starting to refuse to agree to any new user agreements.

It’s pretty much nothing.

I have 3 different AI agents that were forced onto my phone between Google, Samsung, and Microsoft.

freedickpics Mar 7

It’ll be baked into the ToS somewhere but I agree it’s bullshit. Years ago I bought a youtuber downloader app (I know I should’ve just used yt-dl) and they released an update that removed support for half the websites and locked them behind a new higher-priced tier. None of it was mentioned in the changelog, just a prompt that came up after you’d installed the new build. I was able to reinstall the previous version and keep using it but I was still so pissed off