Apple cut one of the few ways to avoid censorship in China, airdrops.
Apple's recent iOS update quietly, and completely unannounced, stopped offering the AirDrop service to Chinese phones and tablets.
In Apple's case, they control the AirDrop organization, rather than it being a decentralized, or autonomous service. It flirts with the idea of being autonomous, but in the end, has a central authority, that can turn the service on or off, as it has done inOn November 9, 2022, Apple released its latest version of the mobile operating system, iOS 16.1.1. There was no mention of new features or the removal of access to some features.
There are settings that allow the AirDrop to be between certain phones, or to everyone. The receive messages from the "everyone" setting would now only run for ten minutes, then shut off, needing to be reset. The send-to-everyone setting was no longer permanent.Essentially immediate communication would be limited, and could not be resumed for 10 minutes or more.
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