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Change the Default iPhone Camera App with This Shortcut Automation
Apple doesn’t let you change the default iPhone Camera app, at least officially. But a clever little hack to switch to your preferred camera app in Shortcuts means you can use your preferred camera app, even when you tap the lock screen shortcut.
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Instagram tightens default content settings for teens
Instagram announced the platform is rolling out a feature that defaults accounts for new users under 16 years old to “Less,” the most restrictive setting for Sensitive Content Control. Teenagers already on Instagram will get push notifications “encouraging” them to opt-in to the heavier filtering on what the algorithm shows them across Search, Explore, Hashtag Pages, Reels, Feed Recommendations, and Suggested Accounts.
The “Standard” setting in Instagram only lets users see some content deemed sensitive, while the “Less” option tightens the restrictions even further, and the “More” option allows users to see more sensitive content or accounts than the default settings. While users over 18 years old typically have access to “Standard,”…
How to Make Windows Terminal Your Default Terminal App
Windows opens all command-line tools in the old Windows Console environment. However, you can make Windows Terminal your default Terminal app whenever you launch Command Prompt or PowerShell.
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Instagram will limit sensitive content for new teen users by default
Instagram will automatically switch on its most restrictive content filter for any new users who are under 16 years old — and recommend that existing teen users do the same, the platform announced today in a blog post. Instagram renamed its existing content settings earlier this summer, which are now categorized as “Less”, “Standard” and “More” and allow users to limit content containing violence, sexual imagery, cosmetic procedures and other “sensitive” subjects. Only users over the age of 18 years old can access the “More” setting, which offers up the least filtered version of Instagram available to the public. (Note: This may cause confusion for some users accustomed to Instagram’s older settings, where the “Limit Even More” option meant the strictest controls on content.)
Now, new Instagram users under 16 years old will have the “Less” setting turned on by default, which will affect the type of content they see throughout the platform, including in Search, Reels, suggested accounts, hashtags and in-feed recommendations. Instagram will also ask all existing teen users to perform a “settings check-up” and limit who can share their content, direct message them and what kind of content their followers can view. It’ll also ask teens if they want to update a feature that lets them limit the amount of time they spend on Instagram.
An Instagram spokesperson told Engadget that one example of the type of content that the “Less” setting would restrict (that the Standard setting would not) is video footage from a protest gone violent. The content settings only apply to accounts that teens don’t currently follow.
Growing concern over the psychological and emotional toll of Instagram for its youngest users prompted a Senate panel last year to bring in head Adam Mosseri for questioning. Ahead of the hearing, the platform unveiled new teen safety features, including one that notified users if they were spending too much time on the app and an option to automatically report that objectionable content to their parents. And earlier this year, Instagram launched parental controls that allow guardians to monitor who their teen follows and impose time limits on the app.
Mental health experts have warned that parental controls on social media can only go so far — especially given the fact that algorithms are known to slip up and reveal risky content. Tech-savvy teens can also easily bypass such parental controls or simply view the content of their choice on a different platform or on a friend’s phone.
This recent change likely won’t be too impactful for teen users whose parents or guardians already control their accounts through Instagram’s Family Center. And for teens who are allowed to roam free on Instagram, it’s hard to imagine how many will willingly switch on the most restrictive content settings — especially if many of their peers pick the more lenient filter.
How to change the default search engine on Chrome
Windows 10 and Chrome are about to make switching default browsers even less painful
Microsoft lost quite a bit of goodwill by forcing the Microsoft Edge browser on uninterested users — but maybe those days are nearing an end? For a possible preview of the future, check this GIF from Leopeva64, who has a future version of Google’s Chrome web browser on their machine, alongside the 2H22 update to Windows 10.
As of this March, switching your default browser in Windows 11 had already been improved to take just a few clicks in a settings menu, but you can see how the older Windows 10 is even cleaner than that. And with the Chrome and Windows 10…
Facebook Messenger finally wants to make end-to-end encrypted the default
Facebook Messenger is testing ways to protect user privacy with a handful of new security features.
On Wednesday, the messaging platform announced it would begin testing “secure storage” of users’ Messenger conversations on the company’s server, so that users can still access their message history even if they’ve lost their device or want to restore message history on a new device. The company also said it would be expanding updates and tests on Messenger’s preexisting end-to-end encrypted features and other security-related features.
Anytime Meta announces privacy or security developments is noteworthy, given the social media giant’s shoddy track record. This rings especially true in light of Roe v. Wade being overturned and the lingering question of how Meta will protect its users’ personal information and moderate abortion content on the platform.
Recently, Facebook complied with a search warrant to turn over private messages between a teenage girl and her mother who are now facing criminal charges for breaking the abortion laws in their state, Nebraska (the teen is being tried as an adult). In response, Meta issued a statement saying the warrants didn’t mention abortion and that “court documents indicate that police were at that time investigating the alleged illegal burning and burial of a stillborn infant.” Following the Supreme Court decision, Facebook began removing posts about abortion pills, and Media Matters reported that the social media platform allowed phony “abortion pill reversal” ads from anti-abortion organizations.
Currently, users’ message history is stored on their own devices. Messenger’s end-to-end encryption, which basically scrambles your messages in transit and unscrambles them for the receiver, is opt-in, which means that users must deliberately choose to activate it. With these new tests, users’ message history would be be automatically end-to-end encrypted instead of opt-in, and that data would be securely backed up in Messenger’s servers — also end-to-end encrypted, so Facebook can’t access it there either. To access backups, users can create a PIN or generate a code. Meta does not have access to this PIN.
Making end-to-end encryption the default instead of opt-in could have a powerful impact, since most people don’t opt-in and are unknowingly vulnerable. As Albert Fox Cahn explained to The Guardian regarding the case of the Nebraska teen and her mother, “True end-to-end encryption would have made it impossible for Facebook to hand over that data.”
Other security features Messenger is testing include syncing deleted messages across all devices, the ability to unsend messages, a browser extension that verifies the authenticity of your web code, expanding end-to-end encrypted chat features to group chats and other countries, and removing vanish mode, a Snap-esque setting where messages are temporary. Messenger will keep the similar disappearing messages feature, since was built for end-to-end encrypted chats.
As of this week, Messenger will be testing secure storage on Android and iOS, but not yet on messenger.com, the desktop app, or chats are aren’t encrypted. Users that are in the test group for default end-to-end encryption won’t need to opt-in — and this will be the case for all users when the features goes live in 2023.
But even if everything is end-to-end encrypted, there’s still the question of how Facebook storing your data on its servers sits with you. If the answer to that is “not well,” there’s always the option to opt out of Facebook altogether.
How to Make Windows Photo Viewer Your Default Image Viewer on Windows 10
Windows 10 uses the new Photos app as your default image viewer, but many people still prefer the old Windows Photo Viewer. You can get Photo Viewer back in Windows 10, though. It’s just hidden.