{"id":422454,"date":"2021-11-12T00:25:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T22:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=422454"},"modified":"2021-11-12T00:48:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T22:48:32","slug":"ios-15-2-beta-can-censor-nudity-in-messages-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/422454-ios-15-2-beta-can-censor-nudity-in-messages-app.html","title":{"rendered":"iOS 15.2 beta can censor nudity in Messages app"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple released its iOS 15.2 beta earlier this week, adding its \u201cCommunication Safety\u201d feature to messages.<\/p>\n

MacRumors reported<\/a><\/strong> that the feature aims to protect children from sexually explicit materials sent or received through the messages app.<\/p>\n

The messages app will automatically blur images in which it detects nudity and warn the user of the content.<\/p>\n

\u201cCommunication safety\u201d is an opt-in component of Family Sharing, meaning it is not enabled as a default.<\/p>\n

When \u201cCommunication Safety\u201d was initially announced<\/a><\/strong>, Apple indicated that it would provide an option to notify a parent if their child had viewed a nude image in the messages app.<\/p>\n

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Apple did not implement this component of \u201cCommunication Safety\u201d as it could pose a risk to children in households subject to parental violence or abuse.<\/p>\n

Instead, Apple will offer guidance to all children \u2014 including those under the age of 13 \u2014 on getting assistance from an adult they trust.<\/p>\n

The scanning of images is done on the device not to compromise the end-to-end encryption of messages.<\/p>\n

It is important to note that \u201cCommunication Safety\u201d is separate from the controversial anti-child sexual abuse material feature<\/a><\/strong> that Apple plans to implement in a future iOS build.<\/p>\n

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Now read: iOS 15.2 beta adds anti-stalking feature<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The iOS Messages app can blur nude images as part of its “Communication Safety” feature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":422474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[605,691,74162,1125],"class_list":["post-422454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-apple","tag-ios","tag-ios-15-2-beta","tag-iphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422454"}],"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\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":422488,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422454\/revisions\/422488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}