Apple wants to get rid of captchas with iOS 16

Not all the features of iOS 16 were given a big presentationduring the last keynoteopening of WWDC, where Apple unveiled the future update of its operating system, explaining that it would be possible to modify its wallpaper and personalize it in a way that Apple had never allowed until 'to today.

In addition to these functions presented by Apple, the Apple brand has also worked on other solutions such as “Automatic Verification”. The latter should allow Apple to replace captchas. As Apple explains, this feature will send the Apple ID to a website instead of a captcha, which would waste the user's time.

Replace captchas with the same level of security

Present on many websites, captchas are today the most reliable solution for verifying the “humanity” of a user. Through this Turing test, the website can sort between robots and flesh-and-blood users. If the first captchas were quite simple, you only had to copy distorted letters, the new ones are much more complex and people usinga VPNor regularly deleting their cookies are often faced with this.

To save them time, Apple worked with Cloudfare and Fastly, two of the largest network distributors in the world, to develop a system that is just as reliable as captchas, but which requires no action on the part of of the user.

Faithful to its doctrine regarding personal data, Apple ensures that this new functionality does not at any time conflict withApple's confidentiality rules. The latter explains that only the Apple ID will be used to prove that it is indeed a human user. No other personal data will be communicated, neither the e-mail address nor the telephone number.

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By : Keleops AG