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Title: Apple to fix Screen Time bug that allowed users to circumvent web browser content restrictions Post by: HCK on June 10, 2024, 04:05:06 pm Apple to fix Screen Time bug that allowed users to circumvent web browser content restrictions
<div class="feat-image">(https://9to5mac.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/06/ios-screen-time.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1600)</div><p>Screen Time promises to allow parents to restrict access to various apps, website and content on their children’s devices. However, ever since Screen Time launched with iOS 12, Apple has been playing whack-a-mole as users discovered new workarounds to avoid the enforced restrictions.</p> <p>As reported by the Wall Street Journal (https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/a-bug-allowed-kids-to-visit-x-rated-sites-apple-took-three-years-to-fix-it-17e5f65d?st=zeqmad1hadhixq0&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink), Apple will be fixing yet another one of these bugs in the next iOS software update. Security researchers had reported this particular bug to Apple multiple times over the last three years, but Apple had rebuffed or ignored them until now.</p> <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2024/06/05/apple-screen-time-bug-web-content/#more-951791" data-post-id="951791" data-layer-pagetype="post" data-layer-postcategory="iphone" data-layer-viewtype="unknown" class="more-link">more…[/url] Source: Apple to fix Screen Time bug that allowed users to circumvent web browser content restrictions (https://9to5mac.com/2024/06/05/apple-screen-time-bug-web-content/) |