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Apple Promises to Fix Long-Ignored Parental Control Bug After Media Spotlight
Apple will finally address a Safari restriction workaround that has been around for years after the bug was highlighted by The Wall Street...
Kids who are restricted from viewing certain websites with the Screen Time feature are able to paste a string of characters in the address bar in Safari in order to get around parental controls. In a report on Screen Time, Stern says that she was able to use a string of characters on her son's iPad, bypassing the restrictions that prevent access to websites with pornography, violent images, and more. Security researchers that spoke to Stern said the bug was first reported to Apple in March of 2021, after it was found that inputting a string of characters would get around website restrictions implemented by parents and web blacklists on company devices.
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