Apple on Tuesday launched the first visionOS 1.1 beta. Together with improved Personas, the replace provides iMessage Contact Key Verification to the Imaginative and prescient Professional.
iMessage Contact Key Verification is an non-compulsory safety function that permits you to manually confirm who you’re messaging with by evaluating verification codes in individual or on a telephone name. The function launched on the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac beginning with iOS 17.2, iPadOS 17.2, watchOS 9.2, and macOS 14.2 final 12 months.
iMessage Contact Key Verification additionally contains “superior protections” that may assist stop attackers from impersonating anybody in a dialog, in accordance with Apple. These protections solely apply if each events in an iMessage dialog have turned on the function. Apple gives extra particulars in a assist doc.
Because of Ryan Isaacs for alerting us to this transformation.
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