Post #3124677
2026-03-27 10:43 UTC
Apple are trying to pass the buck.
The internal corporate line at Apple, as repeated twice by different levels of support, is that they did this because the UK Government told them to.
This is arse-covering bullshit and I told them as much (politely).
What they will have been given is the seven Ofcom-approved methods of HEAA and told to comply with that.
Apple's implementation of three of those seven HEAA methods - and the lack of fallbacks - is solely the result of decisions at Apple. (4/7)
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@gmh@mastodon.social 2026-03-27 10:47
This is also a safeguarding issue. As I found out yesterday, one of the things locked down in 26.4 is that Content and Privacy Restrictions is locked on. You need to pass age verification to change it. Until I can prove I'm over 18, all of these features like location sharing are enabled and I can't disable them. For me, it's an annoying inconvenience. For someone vulnerable in an abusive domestic situation - this could be considerably more serious. (5/7)