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Those who will soon have iOS 16 on their iPhone or macOS Monterey on their Mac will have to fill in a captcha less often.
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At the WWDC 2022 developer conference, Apple presented a Technic Demonstrated for iOS 16 that eliminates the “prove you’re not a robot” puzzles. Completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart (captcha for short), has been around for quite some time and in various forms. Think of a distorted word that you have to type or the boxes with traffic lights that you have to indicate. They sometimes cause irritation because the content is not always clearly legible.
Captcha bypassed
This will no longer be necessary if you are an Apple user. Automatic Verification is the name of the technique, which the iPhone manufacturer has developed together with Cloudflare and Fastly. This works with the underlying system Private Access Tokens. iCloud allows the system to verify your Apple ID and the device you are using. That information is stored in the background as a token. This proves your ‘humanity’.
Apple is trying to reassure privacy-conscious users in one way. With Automatic Verification, no sensitive data or IP addresses are registered and the tech giant would not know who skips the captchas.
There have already been beta periods for both iOS 16 and macOS Monterey, but outside operating system updates will not officially appear until the fall.
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