Apple Limited File Sharing for Chinese iPhone users Thursday, a month after reports that government protesters used the job to share digital publications with strangers.
Smartphones sold by Apple in China can now only receive files from non-contacts for 10 minutes through AirDrop mechanism before feature shuts off automatically off. AirDrop had no previous time limit.
The update rolled out in The operating system Released overnight, it means iPhone users will have to intentionally turn on AirDrop on Shortly before you share the file to receive it.
This makes it virtually impossible to receive unexpected files from strangers.
Change comes next people AirDrop is used to post posts critical of Chinese Communist Party in crowded public Distances after the man was stuck banners on bridge in Beijing last the month that called for remover of “dictator and national Traitor Xi Jinping “and put an end to China zero- Covid-19 policy.
Chinese censorship removed quickly online Videos and publications refer to the protest, while hundreds of Users on The accounts of the popular payment and chatting app WeChat have been banned after talking about this rare act of rebellion.
Apple did not immediately respond to AFP’s request for commentand they did not give a reason for This specific change, but he said in that it update a description for users that operating system Now “includes the error fixes and security updates.
Selling Apple phones outside of Mainland China doesn’t seem to be affected by update while iPhones are sold out in China offered the limit regardless of The country on which the user’s App Store account is based in.
Based in California tech The giant had it before faced Cash for He seems to be making concessions to authoritarianism in China governmentincluding opening the data center in Country as well as remove an application in 2019 that allowed Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protesters to follow the path of police.
On Thursday some Chinese social media iPhone users have praised update as positive step in block unwanted messages from strangers, with one Weibo user said the change “will be largely reduce Prospect of iPhone users are being harassed.”
Only a few wondered why only the job was rotated out on Chinese iPhone with one Weibo commentator jokes about Apple CEO Tim Cook’s friendship with Chinese authorities: “So is Tim Cook a party member or not?”
Apple Limited File Sharing for Chinese iPhone users Thursday, a month after reports that government protesters used the job to share digital publications with strangers.
Smartphones sold by Apple in China can now only receive files from non-contacts for 10 minutes through AirDrop mechanism before feature shuts off automatically off. AirDrop had no previous time limit.
The update rolled out in The operating system Released overnight, it means iPhone users will have to intentionally turn on AirDrop on Shortly before you share the file to receive it.
This makes it virtually impossible to receive unexpected files from strangers.
Change comes next people AirDrop is used to post posts critical of Chinese Communist Party in crowded public Distances after the man was stuck banners on bridge in Beijing last the month that called for remover of “dictator and national Traitor Xi Jinping “and put an end to China zero- Covid-19 policy.
Chinese censorship removed quickly online Videos and publications refer to the protest, while hundreds of Users on The accounts of the popular payment and chatting app WeChat have been banned after talking about this rare act of rebellion.
Apple did not immediately respond to AFP’s request for commentand they did not give a reason for This specific change, but he said in that it update a description for users that operating system Now “includes the error fixes and security updates.
Selling Apple phones outside of Mainland China doesn’t seem to be affected by update while iPhones are sold out in China offered the limit regardless of The country on which the user’s App Store account is based in.
Based in California tech The giant had it before faced Cash for He seems to be making concessions to authoritarianism in China governmentincluding opening the data center in Country as well as remove an application in 2019 that allowed Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protesters to follow the path of police.
On Thursday some Chinese social media iPhone users have praised update as positive step in block unwanted messages from strangers, with one Weibo user said the change “will be largely reduce Prospect of iPhone users are being harassed.”
Only a few wondered why only the job was rotated out on Chinese iPhone with one Weibo commentator jokes about Apple CEO Tim Cook’s friendship with Chinese authorities: “So is Tim Cook a party member or not?”