sweet, now the iPhone (which a child shouldn't use in the first place) is nannying the kid and doing "the talk" instead of the parents.
how soon until your phone makes your son sit trough an entire sex-ed class on his first NSFW internet search?
1:1 conversation couldn't be more different from NSFW internet searches. A malicious party can use coercive tactics to have the child send them compromising photos.
Children shouldn't drive cars, they shouldn't do drugs and they shouldn't use smartphones.
Would you be fine with a beer company making a "safe" version of beer for kids so they get hooked and once they turn 21 they switch to the real stuff and become alcoholics?
Making these devices more "child friendly" is the wrong solution to the problem. Actually, it's the absolute BEST solution if you are Apple and want to calm the parents down and sell more phones and services at the same time. Unfortunately I'm not Apple and my objective regarding my kids is not to maximize profits and push complex technology to people down to the last semi-conscious toddler
I'm curious about how you feel about Google Image's SafeSearch being turned on by default. Is it also worthy of such ire?
This feature is targeted firmly at that demographic who generally aren’t going to listen to what their parents say on this matter. But whom will suffer the worst if their photos are spread around the school.
Some nude content is wanted or warranted by the user, and some of isn't. Apple isn't blocking this content, only optionally hiding it—almost identically to Reddit's NSFW feature for mature adults. The "Ways to Get Help" might overstep the bounds for some situations, but it might also prevent others from getting worse.
Often, children are uncomfortable with sharing about being exposed to uncomfortable content. While that may be a fault of parenting, it doesn't make this tool any less useful.
I wish I received that the first time I looked for NSFW content (at 11). I’m totally fine with this kind of warnings for kids.