Child Safety, Services, and Tattoos - MOSK: 02.21.2023

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Ken Ray

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🗓️ 21 February 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

- Communications Safety in Messages Expanding to Six More Countries - Apple’s Apple Store App in the App Store Gets an Apropos Update - Apple Maps Adds Cycling Directions and Three “Detailed” City Views in Germany - Apple Support Visit Prompts “Invalid URL” Error for Some Users - Apple TV+ Animated Short Wins a BAFTA - Original MIB iPhone Sells at Auction for $63K - Sponsored by SimpliSafe - Get a free indoor security camera plus 20% off with Interactive Monitoring at SimpliSafe.com/macosken - Looking for The Mac Observer's Daily Observations Podcast? Put this link in your podcatcher of choice: https://www.macobserver.com/rss/dailyobservations_mp3.xml - Power what we do next for as little as $1 a month. Join the Mac OS Ken Test Kitchen at Patreon at Patreon.com/macosken - Send me an email: [email protected] or call (716)780-4080!

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0:00.0	This is Mac OSKIN.
0:05.0	Apple's Child Protection Push pushes further, updates and tweaks for Apple Services, and let's all go get
0:15.8	tattoos.
0:16.8	It is Tuesday, the 21st of February, 2023.
0:21.8	I'm Ken Ray, this is news from Maco West Can
0:27.0	brought to you by yours truly and sponsored by simply safe
0:32.0	get a free indoor security camera plus 20% off with interactive monitoring
0:38.0	at simplysafe.com slash Maco-Scan.
0:45.0	This show is also supported by people like you, patrons through Patreon.
0:51.8	Find out more in that your support at Patreon. Apple's communication safety feature for kids is hitting six more countries.
1:06.0	If you've forgotten what that feature does, it's basically there to be an inappropriate
1:12.4	picture block for children.
1:15.0	It's meant to help protect kids from viewing or sharing photos that contain nudity in the
1:19.4	messages app, according to an Apple support doc when opted in or on the company says if
1:26.2	messages to text that a child receives or is attempting to send this type of
1:30.6	photo messages blurs the photo before it's viewed on your child's device
1:35.7	and provides guidance and age-appropriate resources to help them make a safe choice,
1:40.8	including contacting someone they trust if they choose.
1:45.0	Launched in the states in 2021, the feature has since expanded to Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, and Spain. Now a piece for Mac rumor says
1:58.0	the option will go live for folks in Belgium, man, Belgium. Brazil, Japan, the Netherlands, South Korea and Sweden in the coming weeks.
2:10.0	Apple points out that the whole process happens thanks to on- device machine learning
2:15.0	and is designed so that Apple doesn't get access to the photos.
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