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iOS 26.4 age verification
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Wando64
macrumors 68030
iosuser21
macrumors member
1.Cant acess adult websites and probley cant sent saucy pics to your love ones messge or facetime this annoy me as depending on the age group your in it being overprotective. i been able to come across adult pictures if you know the actor name on startpage or a searx instance.
2. articles were saying you couldnt download apps from the app store and make inapp purchases this dosnt seem to true as i try it.
3.Airdrop meant to be restricted as well though i wonder if that to users and not devices very easy to bypass using a nas or a usb-c stick
i had one site that i use for old movies that tell you about the actors there age and weather theres any seantive scence. like nudity voilence rape which is restricted aka no pics or videos unless it the cover for the film.
So it a slippery slope but it only gonna get worst what next on device scanning sorry but there is such a thing as a warrent
Also am more annoy there is no documention on this it really triggers me if there storing in apple passwords in the cloud or the secure enslave. if it the secure enslave what happen on a reinstall as i know it wipes fingerprints and apple pay cards and such.
No offence they could of give users a heads up and give people a few months to prepared.Also this means they wondnt need websites to verify people if apple had done this first and the uk goverment watied online safety bill wise.Also what stop people using p2p some still exist or setting up there own ftp sever. Meh🙁😡
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Indeed, and now that age verification is becoming popular for all sorts of websites, you know that lots of unscrupulous verification companies will start up to milk the system anyway they can.
My main concern is people uploading their ID and hackers obtaining that, and the list of sites they have accessed and using it to blackmail them. I don't use, or upload my ID so not an issue for me, but I can see it becoming an issue.
Kriss_De_Valnor
macrumors member
Well I'm not happy about this situation but you know what they say: dura lex sed lex. So I will think twice while voting next time.
I took my passport, took two snapshots of the same main page, first time didn't work but the second one did. Drama over. But bad tase in my mouth is still there.
I took my passport, took two snapshots of the same main page, first time didn't work but the second one did. Drama over. But bad tase in my mouth is still there.
Kriss_De_Valnor
macrumors member
I gave up with a classic credit card because one day someone was able to capture my card details and did some shopping in China. Got my money back but later I switched to PayPal Credit and so far it is bulletproof.
AstonSmith
macrumors regular
It let you skip the part where you have to use a credit card or ID to confirm the 18+. If everyone got to skip to the same screen you got, there'd be no fuss.
cjsuk
macrumors 68020
Congratulations. You had your iCloud account for over 18 years. That's an outlier!
The fuss will be for me...
1. The 81 year old who has an iCloud account for 8 years but no driving license because she's not allowed to drive or credit card because she has no job.
2. The 20 year old who has an iCloud account for 12 years but no driving license and no credit card because she has no job. I have ordered her a provisional license for £34 which may or may not fix this.
3. Myself (and my partner) who spent the last 30 years working in professional security critical positions and know all the political, technical, logistical and discriminatory threats that this forces upon the end users.
This is literally discriminatory and dangerous and needs to **** off in my professional opinion.
Which it will be doing by migrating to a platform which cannot be targeted.
NUFC2025
macrumors 6502a
I have been running this on my old pixel 7a as a test bef but since all of this news hit I have actually started using it on my 9a and is now my daily driver.
cjsuk
macrumors 68020
Yeah it's pretty good so far. I actually had a 7a for a bit as well as a burner phone for travelling. Not terrible experience.
iosuser21
macrumors member
someone on reedit says
I GENUINELY got told by Apple care today that I could just someone else’s ID or card and it would work. It did, kind of defeats the entire purpose no??
Anyone try this? Someone has see post 168 it works!
I GENUINELY got told by Apple care today that I could just someone else’s ID or card and it would work. It did, kind of defeats the entire purpose no??
Anyone try this? Someone has see post 168 it works!
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If these regulations keep getting pushed, then GrapheneOS will eventually need to play ball or just close up shop.
steve62388
macrumors 68040
The thing is in some cases these companies know their products are bad for people, they deliberately bury information saying so, and sometimes go out of their way to make their products more addictive.
There are many examples. The tobacco industry. McDonalds installed playgrounds because they knew if they captured customers young they would have them for life. Facebook knows it's products have an adverse affect, takes almost no steps to mitigate dangers, deliberately makes them more addictive, and buries studies and voices showing it as such.
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steve62388
macrumors 68040
And that makes you a good parent, but not everybody is.
Just to be clear, I'm not a fan of all this age verification stuff, there is no doubt in my mind that this is going to lead us somewhere in the future that we would think was unconscionable right now. It's just another slippery slope.
But... there are many times the state steps in to save its citizens from themselves with all sorts of laws about all sorts of things. We would consider it negligent if they didn't.
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cjsuk
macrumors 68020
Unlikely. The source is available so even if they are forced to you can patch it out yourself and use that.
cjsuk
macrumors 68020
Ok I just tried this on my mother's phone. The age verification test passed with my driving license on her iCloud account.
What a pile of total and utter failure.
NUFC2025
macrumors 6502a
So basically anyone under 18 can just grab their parents dining licence and use that.
Talk about not being secure.
Whatever one thinks of the sneaky way this has been sprung on users, one thing is crystal clear: they lied about it being 'to comply with UK regulations'.
cjsuk
macrumors 68020
Yup exactly that.
I’m wondering if it’s intentional. Aka letter or the law but not the spirit of the law. That’s such a bad security control that they know about it.
cjsuk
macrumors 68020
It’s a bit more complicated. The regulations don’t mandate device age verification but do mandate service age verification. When the device is a lemon without the services then it makes sense to do the account verification on the device.
Personally I’d rather more stuff was pushed to the device rather than proxied through the services as there would be no way to control that with legislation then.
End game: ecosystems suck and are control points. Don’t get in one.
Grayburn
macrumors 68030
But unless you walk around covered in tin foil from head to toe, you're still not safe.
Ideally I’d want OS verification and all other services query the OS to see if the user is verified over 18, rather than having to trust every single website not to have a data breach.