PSA: macOS updates often modify your System Preferences to violate your Privacy

Re:PSA: macOS updates often modify your System Preferences t... by wayneftw on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @09:14PM (#26419370)

Same thing with iOS updates. Every major update will force you to go through all of the options that Apple wants you to use like having a passcode and using Siri and other such things. If you don't choose the options that Apple wants you to choose – they will put a notification on the Settings app that you did not finish setup. Then you have to go through the entire setup again choosing the same exact options that you did the first time. A few times this is tripped up my wife who then complains that her phone is now forcing her to use a passcode to open the phone.

Also some settings are irreversible. For me, I made the mistake of using my personal Apple ID as my developer ID for a while. At some point Apple started forcing developers to enable to 2FA. Now that I've enabled it I am not allowed to disable it. So, one day I will have to start a whole new Apple account and lose anything that I have purchased.

Luckily I avoid getting locked in, I don't buy many apps and none of the apps that I use on a daily basis are purchased. Unfortunately I will lose all of my saved passwords and I will have to transfer my contacts, messages and photos manually. I don't even think I can transfer my messages so I will just have to lose the old ones.

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Re:PSA: macOS updates often modify your System Preferences t... by midrus on Thursday March 11, 2021 @08:29AM (#26423757)

Well, I actually think that forcing, or encouraging the average user to use a pin code to unlock the phone is a good thing.

I can't get my mother to use one, and she has a lot of information about me in his phone (emails, conversations, etc).

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Re:PSA: macOS updates often modify your System Preferences t... by wayneftw on Thursday March 11, 2021 @02:25PM (#26427935)

Dark patterns aren't encouragement.

Encouragement would be a statement of why they recommend some action. Instead they try to trick you.

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Re:PSA: macOS updates often modify your System Preferences t... by webmobdev on Thursday March 11, 2021 @01:15AM (#26420853)

Yeah, for all the privacy and restriction features iOS provides, disabling it all and resetting some or all of it everytime you update your OS makes it really meaningless! I've come to realise that this is all Apple's own security theatre approach to mislead their users.

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