Apple announces new safety features for kids and parents
- On Monday, Apple announced iOS 27 at the Worldwide Developer Conference , introducing significant performance upgrades alongside enhanced parental control features designed to protect younger users.
- New parental tools include 'Ask to Browse' for website approval and 'Time Allowances' for app usage limits, developed with guidance from the American Academy of Pediatrics to establish healthy digital habits.
- Expanding existing protections, Apple will automatically blur gore and violence in Messages and FaceTime calls by default for users under 18, building on previous nudity-detection capabilities.
- The redesigned Screen Time app now provides parents an immediate view of device usage and most used apps, enabling quick adjustments to access and daily schedules with a single tap.
- While Apple highlighted these updates, advocacy groups including the Heat Initiative and UltraViolet staged a protest outside the company's headquarters, demanding stricter action against child sexual abuse material on iCloud.
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As governments multiply regulatory projects on children's access to social networks, Apple offers new tools for parents to better control and monitor their activities on their devices.
Apple is expanding the tools it offers families to protect their children on the Internet, a measure that takes place at a time when governments around the world are increasingly banning social media for young people.The iPhone and iPad manufacturer presented on Monday at their World Developers Conference new features that give parents greater control over when their children can use apps, what content they can access, and who they can communica…
The company also added a “Request View” feature and redesigned Screen Time.
Apple’s Screen Time updates are too little, too late
Ask to Browse is one of the new features coming to Screen Time. | Screenshot The Verge Apple spending a big chunk of its WWDC keynote on parental controls was surprising for several reasons. But the biggest is that, despite all the airtime, it didn't announce much new beyond a redesigned interface. Almost all the features touted already exist or are upgrades to current options. Why Apple chose to do this isn't a mystery. You can trace the threa…
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