There's also a new browser choice screen. Today Apple has announced a new set of changes it's going to implement into its mobile operating systems to...

I don’t expect most iPhone users to ever change their default settings, but it’s nice that it will be possible in a year.

Who knows, maybe one day you can run actual Firefox on them too? :p

  • cordlesslamp@lemmy.todayEnglish
    1·
    7 months ago

    I wonder what counted as “an EU iPhone”?

    The serial number? GPS location of the phone? IP address?

    How could one outside of EU region to have an “EU iphone”?

    • tudor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      7 months ago

      An European iPhone, aka an iPhone which will get these features, is identified by a background process named countryd, introduced in iOS 16. Its only purpose is to compute and predict the most likely location of the user (as in country/region) and lock down features accordingly.

      These are only some of the factors taken into the equation:

      • GPS location
      • Wi-Fi location
      • Wi-Fi hotspot country codes
      • Cellular/GSM country codes
      • IP address
      • Home and roaming operator regions
      • Apple Account region
      • Device region
      • Satellite reachability

      countryd takes in all of these and more as input to provide the most likely country of the user. If that country is in the EU, then 💥 Sideloading, Default Apps, etc etc etc goodies