🍏UK Apple iPhone Users - Update 26.4 Changes Everything📱
When this update installs on your device, you'll immediately be asked to verify your age. If you are unable to, that device will revert to ''Child Restrictions''.
Check your version and update schedule now. Roll-out started yesterday.
👉 Invasive update is version 26.4
👉 Applies to all Apple iOS users
👉 Verification may happen automatically
👉 Updates can be ''delayed'' but is not a solution - Apple regularly kill devices without updates
Apple was forced to implement this locked door by the UK government who silenced Apple from reporting it until the update was released. That is why you havn't heard about it.
Android users are not exempt - expect the UK to force Google to do the same in the near future.
Unprecedented Overreach
Make no mistake, this is a watershed moment for freedoms and privacy.
You spent hundreds, if not thousands on a product only now to be met with a corporate/governmental ultimatum, hand over ID which will link you to everything you do on that device or have restricted usage.
This will affect 35 million UK users.
''Child Restriction'' means that Apple’s Web Content Filter and Communication Safety features are switched on across all browsers and messaging apps and FaceTime, monitoring communications in real-time. Everything you do will be scrutinised.
Communication Safety scans incoming and outgoing images and videos for nudity. Both activate silently for anyone who hasn’t cleared the adult threshold. Skip verification, or lack a credit card and a government ID, and Apple decides what you’re allowed to do on the device.
Scan the card, upload the ID, or live with restricted access. The system doesn’t offer alternatives.
Solutions - Luckily You Have Some
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