iOS 16 Introduces Safety Check to Help Users in Abusive Relationships

As part of iOS 16, Apple is introducing Safety Check, a new feature meant to help individuals in an abusive relationship quickly and safely end sharing their passwords, location, and more with their partner.

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As Apple describes Safety Check:

A new privacy tool called Safety Check can be helpful to users whose personal safety is at risk from domestic or intimate partner violence by quickly removing all access they've granted to others. It includes an emergency reset that helps users easily sign out of iCloud on all their other devices, reset privacy permissions, and limit messaging to just the device in their hand. It also helps users understand and manage which people and apps they've given access to.

Safety Check will be available to users as part of all of Apple's new software updates later this fall. Apple today announced ‌iOS 16‌, iPadOS 16, macOS Ventura, and watchOS 9.

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Sciomar Avatar
13 months ago
It's unfortunate such things need to be implemented but kudos for doing it.
Score: 17 Votes (Like | Disagree)
iHorseHead Avatar
13 months ago

As a Woman i welcome this kind of feature. And also think Johnny depp would make use of this…
As a man who was abused by his ex-girlfriend I also welcome this kind of feature.
Score: 15 Votes (Like | Disagree)
WiiDSmoker Avatar
13 months ago

As a Woman i welcome this kind of feature. And also think Johnny depp would make use of this…
As a Man I welcome this kind of feature.
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555gallardo Avatar
13 months ago
Introducing Apple Amber.
Score: 12 Votes (Like | Disagree)
bitethis Avatar
13 months ago
A subject not given enough attention. Thank you apple for adding this feature.
Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)
now i see it Avatar
13 months ago
Safety Check:

“We basically created a global tracking nightmare which has been in existence for over 10 years and now we have a new feature to minimize it.”
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)

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