Browser restrictions on iPhone, iPad: The adult filter function in Apple iPhones and iPads is automatically blocking the search for any phrase containing the word “Asian”. The content filters are blocking out even search phrases like “Asian food” if a user has enabled the setting to limit adult internet websites. The filters had been ushered in by the iPhone maker to enable parents to restrict specific content for their youngsters, permitting them to pick amongst “unrestricted” access, “limit adult websites” and “allowed websites only”.
Selecting the setting for “limit adult websites” would block any web-site obtaining words like “Asian” in the URL, such as Google’s search outcomes.
Through these restrictions, not only iPhone’s default Safari, but even third-party browsers like Blaze and Chrome, block out such search words. However, search phrases containing words like “Korean”, “Arab” or “French”, which are also well known categories on adult internet websites containing pornographic content, are not becoming filtered out due to this function, which indicates that the word “Asian” is becoming restricted for seemingly no cause.
Meanwhile, search phrases like “teen”, “mature” and “amateur” are also becoming restricted.
However, looking for these terms in the in-constructed search bar shows the which means of the word, linked to Oxford Dictionary, and content from mails and installed apps containing the word. It’s only browsing the word that is restricted.
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The dilemma had 1st been noticed by Steven Shen, an iOS developer, back in 2019 and he wrote to Cupertino apprising it of the predicament. However, just after the firm did not take any cognisance of the concern, the developer wrote about the concern on microblogging web-site Twitter lately.
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Content filter settings can be enabled by going to Settings, and then to “Screen Time”. In this, customers would see the choice of “Content & Privacy Restrictions”, in which upon heading to “Content Restrictions”, customers would see the choice of “Web Content”. In this, customers can pick to set it to “Unrestricted”, “Limit Adult Websites” or “Allowed Websites Only”.