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If you enable “Limit Adult Websites” in Screen Time on iOS, you will see that you will not be able to search for anything with the word “Asian” in Safari. Doing so will only return a page stating that you cannot examine the results of your query because it is restricted; It doesn’t matter if you were just looking for “Asian food” or “Asian countries”. Now, the tech giant is finally fixing the problem. According to Mashable, the latest adult content filter in iOS 14.5 Beta no longer blocks searches that contain the word “Asian”.
Screen Time’s Adult Filter has been blocking queries with Asians since at least December 2019 when iOS developer Steven Shen discovered the issue and reported it to Apple. However, it remained unresolved and came to the fore when “Stop Asian Hate” came into vogue online to combat rising anti-Asian sentiment in America. Yes, the adult filter also blocks the campaign slogan in most search engines. When we tried to replicate the issue last year, Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, and even Baidu showed us a notification that we were trying to navigate a restricted page. The only search engine that could process “Asian” queries was Yahoo!
Mashable says that when he installed iOS 14.5 Beta on an iPhone, he was able to successfully search for terms like “Asian”, “Asian food”, “Asian actors”, “Asian art” and “Stop Asian Hate” even with the adult. filter on. Apple released the beta platform to the public last week, so you can download and install it if it’s part of the company’s Beta software program. The final version of the platform is expected to be available sometime this spring.
