On: Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption...

[withinboredom]

I’m fairly certain the age is different per region and hopefully tied to the age of consent (in this particular case).

[rootusrootus → withinboredom]

I don't think it has anything to do with age. It has everything to do with you adding the phone to your family under settings and declaring that it belongs to a child. You control the definition of child.

[jdavis703 → rootusrootus]

I could imagine an abusive partner enabling this to make sure their partner isn’t sexting other people. Given the pushback for AirTags I’m surprised people aren’t more concerned.

[rootusrootus → jdavis703]

Anyone 13 or older can remove themselves from a family sharing group. The only exception is if screen time is enabled and enforced for their device.

Frankly, if you have an abusive partner with physical control over you and a willingness to do this, the fact that Apple supports this technology is the least of your problems.

[xondono → jdavis703]

Except this would require consent of the abused partner when creating the account to set an age <13yo.

You can’t ser this to other accounts on you family remotely.

[endisneigh → jdavis703]

You’re misunderstanding what this is if this is an actual concern of yours.

[jdavis703 → endisneigh]

I’m not sure I’m misunderstanding. This is another feature that allows someone with access to another person’s phone to enable stalkerware like features.