(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.
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
The California law doesn’t require age verification, just a setting on the account that e.g. a parent can set. It’s still stupid, but it’s not what apple is supposedly doing here.
How would they enforce that on an open-source platform?
Right, people can just compile their own, which I will absolutely do if need be
By destroying all general-purpose computing available to consumers.
You mean, like…rounding up every computer and burning them?
I really don’t know what you mean by this.
Probably over time. Look at the RAM situation - the fear is this will be the norm. At best.
I mean DRMing and Tivoizing every new computer so that it can’t be rooted or jailbroken and Linux won’t run on it. Requiring a license from the state to have a compiler. You know, The Right to Read or Unauthorized Bread type shit.
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.