iOS 16 Introduces Safety Check to Help Users in Abusive Relationships

[MacRumors]

As part of iOS 16, Apple is introducing Safety Check, a new feature meant to help individuals in an abusive relationship quickly and safely end sharing their passwords, location, and more with their partner.

As Apple describes Safety Check:

A new privacy tool called Safety Check can be helpful to users whose personal safety is at risk from domestic or intimate partner violence by quickly removing all access they've granted to others. It includes an emergency reset that helps users easily sign out of iCloud on all their other devices, reset privacy permissions, and limit messaging to just the device in their hand. It also helps users understand and manage which people and apps they've given access to.

Safety Check will be available to users as part of all of Apple's new software updates later this fall. Apple today announced iOS 16, iPadOS 16, macOS Ventura, and watchOS 9.

Article Link: iOS 16 Introduces Safety Check to Help Users in Abusive Relationships

 

[555gallardo]

Introducing Apple Amber.

 

[JPack]

Can you this with Siri?

 

[Sciomar]

It's unfortunate such things need to be implemented but kudos for doing it.

 

[now i see it]

Safety Check:

“We basically created a global tracking nightmare which has been in existence for over 10 years and now we have a new feature to minimize it.”

 

[bitethis]

A subject not given enough attention. Thank you apple for adding this feature.

 

[emmab2006]

As a Woman i welcome this kind of feature. And also think Johnny depp would make use of this…

 

[BootsWalking]

I can see a lot of applications for this feature outside its intended use. Kudos Apple.

 

[Think|Different]

Really admirable stuff. Great to simply openly discuss and address with a solution – if it's not for you, that's cool.

 

[Elcuria]

I wonder how this works with Family Sharing? Could a child shut off a parent's access to the child's device? Not that kids would ever do that!

Okay - maybe some would.

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

Glad to see this option is out there. Only iPhone can do this. Another rich feature.

 

[Codestud]

Old computers would have a DIP switch. This is a Depp switch.

 

[Wanted797]

Introducing Apple Amber.

The rest of the world would have no idea what that is.

 

[rbramseyjr]

I wonder how this works with Family Sharing? Could a child shut off a parent's access to the child's device? Not that kids would ever do that!

Okay - maybe some would.

this was literally my first thought. also that tech savvy abusers would have themselves set up as the primary account, which would make things trickier.

i can see this saving a lot of people in abusive relationships. i can also see runaways using this and kidnapping victims having this used against them.

sick world we are living in.

 

[AppliedMicro]

Plot twist: abusive partner uses Safety Check to lock out his partner from all of their devices - and their iCloud contacts/address book - to isolate his victim.

 

[rbramseyjr]

Old computers would have a DIP switch. This is a Depp switch.

they were both abusers. let's stop keeping trash at the forefront of popular culture.

 

[_Spinn_]

This is a great feature.

 

[JippaLippa]

Cool feature.

 

[WiiDSmoker]

As a Woman i welcome this kind of feature. And also think Johnny depp would make use of this…

As a Man I welcome this kind of feature.

 

[tkaravou]

As a Woman i welcome this kind of feature. And also think Johnny depp would make use of this…

A different type of Amber alert

 

[jimbobb24]

This should have an undo so the next day when you sober up you dont need to re-enter all the data.

 

[Tavicu]

I like how the first name from the list is Amber )

 

[iHorseHead]

As a Woman i welcome this kind of feature. And also think Johnny depp would make use of this…

As a man who was abused by his ex-girlfriend I also welcome this kind of feature.

 

[Bmoreguy03]

A pretty good feature

 

[ZZ9pluralZalpha]

Also sounds useful for other scenarios, e.g., your house is burgled and you don't want your bank's MFA code texted (because of course your bank hasn't heard of SIM hijacking) to all of your now-missing devices as you attempt to lock down your accounts...