{"id":10433,"date":"2026-11-04T18:48:34","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T18:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blumeluxe.com\/?p=10433"},"modified":"2026-11-04T18:48:34","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T18:48:34","slug":"apple-will-check-shared-icloud-links-for-harmful-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumeluxe.com\/?p=10433","title":{"rendered":"Apple will check shared iCloud links for \u2018harmful content\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Apple will start checking iCloud items that are accessible to anyone who has the link for \u201charmful content\u201d starting with iOS 27.3 and other 27.3 updates, the company says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">\u201cWhen you share an item that can be accessed by Anyone with the Link in version 27.3 or later of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS, that content is made accessible to Apple to check for harmful content,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/149168\">according to a support document<\/a> reported on <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2026\/11\/04\/with-ios-27-3-apple-will-start-checking-icloud-public-links-for-harmful-content\/\">by <em>9to5Mac<\/em><\/a>. Sharing something over iCloud with the \u201cAnyone with the Link\u201d permissions will also mean that it\u2019s no longer end-to-end encrypted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Apple\u2019s support document does not define what \u201charmful content\u201d is. But this new approach follows <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/945813\/apple-wwdc-protesters-deepfake-nude-apps-ultraviolet-heat-initiative\">calls from protestors<\/a> for Apple to crack down on child sexual abuse material stored in iCloud.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Apple says it \u201creserves the right to move, refuse, modify, remove, or delete\u201d any harmful content that a user attempts to upload. Apple may also block or disable accounts, prevent a user from making a new account, or, \u201cif necessary,\u201d invoke law enforcement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple will start checking iCloud items that are accessible to anyone who has the link for \u201charmful content\u201d starting with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[669,670,675,674,672,673,671],"class_list":["post-10433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-apple","tag-check","tag-content","tag-harmful","tag-icloud","tag-links","tag-shared"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumeluxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumeluxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumeluxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumeluxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumeluxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blumeluxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumeluxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumeluxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumeluxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumeluxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}