The feature, announced in early August, will scan iCloud Photos for content that depicts sexually explicit activities involving children.<\/p>\n Apple said this would allow it to report such instances to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC).<\/p>\n Despite assuring that the feature will be designed with user privacy in mind and going to great lengths to explain how it would achieve this, Apple was forced to delay<\/strong><\/a> it after heavy backlash from customers.<\/p>\n Advocacy groups and researchers were concerned the system could be abused to spy on citizens and get personal photos in countries with authoritarian governments.<\/p>\n Apple said it would collect input and make improvements before releasing the “critically important” child safety feature, but a new rollout date remains to be confirmed.<\/p>\n Apple has revealed the launch date for iOS 15, which will offer new Facetime, iMessage, and Photos features, and redesigned notifications, among other changes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341042,"featured_media":400699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[605,12467,10416,8883,67786,39,69529,1125],"class_list":["post-414218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-apple","tag-apple-maps","tag-facetime","tag-imessage","tag-ios-15","tag-ipad","tag-ipados-15","tag-iphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414238,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414218\/revisions\/414238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/iOS-15-summary-e1623090076790.jpg\")
<\/a>One feature which will not be rolling out as originally planned is Apple’s controversial child safety update<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\nNow read: Android 12 possible launch date revealed<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"