11/30/2022
RawNews1st – As anti-lockdown protests continue across China, it has been revealed that Apple restricted the use of its AirDrop functionality on iPhones in China.
With protests spreading across China over Xi Jinping’s zero-COVID strategy, Apple has restricted the use of AirDrop on iPhones and Apple devices in the country.
Protesters use AirDrop to bypass the communist regime’s censorship of the internet and communicate directly with other protesters by “forming a local network of devices that don’t need the internet to communicate,” according to Quartz.
Apple’s new iOS update, released on Nov. 9, restricts that feature. Now, users can only set up their AirDrop to accept messages from everyone for just ten minutes, whereas previously it could be permanent.
Now, protesters would have to go into their phones every ten minutes to reset their AirDrop settings to continue to communicate.
There would be reasonable explanations for this iOS change if it was uniform, but, according to Quartz, the change only applies to iPhones sold in mainland China.
Full Link ( Washington Examiner )
