Apple introduced a new feature with its upcoming iOS 18 that has sparked controversy among users, with some calling it “a cheater’s paradise.”
The new update will allow users to hide or lock apps on their iPhone’s home screen, keeping their personal hobbies and information away from prying eyes.
While Apple promoted it to keep banking apps private and prevent children from purchasing items on Amazon, many people see the feature as helping members cheat easily.
Social media erupted with posts about the new app, with some calling it “sick” while others praised the new feature for allowing them to hide dating apps from their spouse.
Apple introduced a new feature with its upcoming iOS 18 that has sparked controversy among users, with some calling it “a cheater’s paradise.”
The new update will allow users to hide or lock apps on their iPhone’s home screen, keeping their personal hobbies and information away from prying eyes.
‘Users can now lock an app; and for added privacy, they can hide an app, moving it to a hidden and locked apps folder,” Apple shared in an announcement after its Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday.
“When an app is locked or hidden, content like messages or emails within the app is hidden from search, notifications, and other places in the system.”
Hiding an app allows users to hide the app icon and name on the home screen, which will also pause notifications.
That includes all apps downloaded from the App Store, such as dating and social media apps.
But the feature creates a ‘Hidden Apps’ folder in the App Library, which shows that the user is trying to keep some things secret.
Users can also lock built-in apps like Mail, Messages, Notes, Phone, Photos, and Safari that can only be opened with Face ID.
“Locked and hidden apps give users peace of mind that information they want to keep private, such as notifications and app content, won’t be inadvertently viewed by others,” Apple shared in the announcement.
‘Users can now lock an app; and for added privacy, they can hide an app, moving it to a hidden and locked apps folder.’
Hiding an app allows users to hide the app icon and name on the home screen, which will also pause notifications. Users can also lock built-in apps like Mail, Messages, Notes, Phone, Photos, and Safari that can only be opened with Face ID.
Users instantly flocked to Elon Musk’s X after the feature was announced, with some saying they had waited years for the feature; Apple previously said that Locking an app was a long-requested item. But many people saw it as a way for cheaters to go unnoticed.
Users instantly flocked to Elon Musk’s X after the feature was announced, with some saying they had waited years for the feature; Apple previously said that Locking an app was a long-requested item.
But many people considered it a way for cheaters to go unnoticed.
‘Thank you Apple. I will try to hide the online dating app from my wife,” shared an X user.
“With locking the app and hiding the app, I can finally do it.”
Others joked that the show was “going to break relationships.”
The feature comes as 40 percent of Americans reported using dating apps while in a serious relationship.
The feature comes as 40 percent of Americans reported using dating apps while in a serious relationship.
While Lock and Hide, an app received mixed reviews, many other new features in the upcoming iOS 18 were fan favorites.
While Lock and Hide, an app received mixed reviews, many other new features in the upcoming iOS 18 were fan favorites.
Apple announced what it calls Apple Intelligence, a completely new system powered by artificial intelligence that runs on its platforms and devices that can solve user problems and respond to prompts and can also create new text and images.
The system will be able to take information from applications such as Maps, Mail and Messages to help with scheduling and planning, offer rewrites, summaries and corrections of text and create new images based on prompts or ideas from users, something that is already common in the Generative AI. tools available elsewhere.
In a bid to differentiate itself from its rivals, Apple has presented Apple Intelligence as more “personal”, saying it is “based on the things that make you you” to help users complete tasks “in a way that works for you.” “. and talked about the system’s ability to understand a user’s “personal context” to provide them with the most useful solution.
