Take Control of iOS & iPadOS Privacy and Security, 2nd Edition

Understand Apple’s Child Protection Approach

In August 2021, Apple announced that various products, primarily iOS 15 and iPadOS 15, would include a set of three distinct new behaviors and options that they said were designed to enhance the protection of children. That included children using Apple devices and those who might be victimized—or re-victimized as children or adults—through people’s use of Apple hardware and services.

But not so fast. Apple’s proposals caused an extraordinary backlash from privacy advocates, electronic rights groups, and groups associated with domestic-violence victims, LGBTQ+ youth, and others. Maybe, they said, Apple didn’t think out the implications of how these new systems would work in exposing people’s privacy, ...