(Not sure if this is worldwide or only in some countries)

Updating to iOS 26.4DB2 will put your phone into a parental-restricted mode with adult websites blocked on all browsers, warning prompts every time you try to send or receive an explicit image on a messaging app, and all social media apps blocked on the App Store (in Australia)

The settings to disable this mode are locked off until you verify your age either with a credit card, photo ID, or though information Apple already has (like the age of your account).

I've been an apple user my entire adult life but this might finally be the thing that forces me off the platform. Do any other long term apple users have some tips about migrating? I've heard Ashai Linux is pretty good on mac hardware these days and I've been thinking about GrapheneOS for a while.

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[–] 250 points 6 months ago (10 children)

I find it odd to protect children they will stalk the hell out of us but won’t arrest known pedophiles …

I hate the world

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  • [–] 34 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    If everyone voting for these age requirements don't also vote to require you to use an ID to unlock the safety on a gun or remove a knife from the knife rack, they aren't voting on this to protect the children.

    Knives and guns need age verification before someone seeing Kate Upton showing her breasts.

    Im going side with none of it needs age verification, and all of it needs parental guidance

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    [–] 128 points 6 months ago (22 children)

    This is insane. They have to view your images to deem of they are explicit...

    Basically a year away from a universal internet ID that will track all movements and can be restricted if your government doesn't like you.

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  • [–] 47 points 6 months ago (12 children)
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    [–] 76 points 6 months ago* (4 children)

    After commercial OS have age verification they will remove it from the programs because the age was already verified, right? (Padme asking Anakin)

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  • [–] 68 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (7 children)

    When I first decided to switch to Linux, I started exclusively using apps that were available on Linux. This way I was able to gradually transition my workflows one app at a time without any rush. When I was ready to install Linux, I did it on a new computer so I still had access to everything on the old computer and there was no risk of going computer-less if the installation went sideways.

    Also, keep in mind that Asahi only works on M1 and M2 Macs. (If you have an old Intel Mac, you can just run normal Linux without Asahi)

    Oh and Veronica Explains has a great video about her experience with Asahi.

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  • [–] [S] 21 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    This might be a stupid question but when using ashai can you run any normal linux software or does it have to be specifically built for arm64/apple silicon?

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  • [–] 54 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    Fuuuuck with apple doing this, I wonder how long we have until this BS enters Android and Linux Kernel.

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  • [–] 47 points 6 months ago

    Lmao good fucking luck enforcing this on Linux. There's no central authority to handle age verification, and even if there was, it'd take less than a week for someone to make a patched version of whatever tool they use that just... Autoreports that you're an adult no matter what.

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    [–] 52 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    I don't give a shit what children see.

    They'll live.

    Stop spying on adults.

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  • [–] [S] 29 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    I mean some shit you find online is pretty grim but when I was a kid I knew the internet was for adults and didn't expect everything to be catered to me. Now the status quo seems to be "every website must be kid/advertiser friendly and PG13 by default, everything else must be locked behind a verification prompt". How did we get here?

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  • [–] 41 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    They’re going to burn this in all the way from the sub-microprocessor DRM/TPM to the browser, aren’t they?

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    [–] 36 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    So now California has a governor pretending to be pro-Palestine to do damage control while signing laws that give Zionist corporations more control over your data and hardware

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    [–] 34 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    What...is this shit? What's the real reason behind this? What senator or governor has a brother in law in the age verification business that got this corruptioned into being a thing all of a sudden?

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    [–] 33 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Wait, send explicit images? I'm not a child, I get that on these platforms my privacy is pretty well gone, but is it explicitly known (confirmed from the source) that these companies scan your images too?

    That feels extra fucked up. Like "hold on a sec bucko let me check this photo you're trying to send real quick to make sure it's not titties "

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    [–] 33 points 6 months ago (33 children)

    If the West follows into the footsteps of the propaganda they are spreading against China, I'd rather go live in China because at least there people don't live paycheck to paycheck despite working multiple jobs. Every accusation against China was a confession.

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    [–] 27 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Thank you, Tim Apple, for making 2026 the year of the Linux desktop (but not necessarily the Ubuntu, Fedora, or Mint desktop).

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    [–] 25 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    I bet people will just accept it and not even think twice about it.

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    [–] 22 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    The example of the age of your account made me realize I’m old

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    [–] 21 points 6 months ago

    I’ll figure out a way to bypass this or switch to Linux entirely.

    And then probably end up in a camp.

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  • [–] 20 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Lame - never updating my stuff and will move off smartphones.

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  • [–] 18 points 6 months ago (15 children)

    Sadly graphene will have to implement age verification too at some point as these laws spread like the ones in California that require ALL os providers including Linux to implement it albeit a pointless user dob input at account creation or be fined into the afterlife

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    [–] 17 points 6 months ago

    I love how big corp is already ready. It's almost as if they somehow knew all along that all the govs with bribable legislators would be making laws they all seemed to arbitrarily adopt at once. Can't wait for the shill AI slop response to this comment making it seem like a good idea.

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  • [–] 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (7 children)

    Could someone share a non alarmist take here? I have seen posts elsewhere that apple's "using information we already have to assign you an age-range" is better than other more invasive methods.

    I (regrettably) acquiesced when prompted to use this method in order to access health insurance app. Am I cooked? permanent all powerful spyware time?

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    [–] 16 points 6 months ago

    prompts every time you try to send or receive an explicit image on a messaging app

    Does this mean they caved in to the UK's client-side scanning stuff after all?

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    "Must be outside of California, Colorado, and Brazil to download this Linux ISO"

    "Must be outside of California, Colorado, and Brazil to proceed with installation"

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