{"id":50135,"date":"2022-11-11T09:30:13","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T00:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/11\/apple-limits-iphone-filesharing-feature-used-by-protesters-in-china"},"modified":"2022-11-11T09:30:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T00:30:13","slug":"apple-limits-airdrop-on-iphones-in-china-after-filesharing-feature-was-used-by-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50135","title":{"rendered":"Apple limits AirDrop on iPhones in China after filesharing feature was used by protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The AirDrop function was being used to anonymously share digital leaflets with strangers, but has now been restricted on iPhones in China<\/p>\n<p>Apple has limited filesharing features on iPhones in China, a month after reports that anti-government protesters were using the function to share digital leaflets with strangers.<\/p>\n<p>Under the update to the AirDrop function released on Thursday, iPhone users in China can only opt in to receive files from non contacts during a 10-minute window before it automatically shuts off. The feature did not previously have a time limit.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/11\/apple-limits-iphone-filesharing-feature-used-by-protesters-in-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AirDrop function was being used to anonymously share digital leaflets with strangers, but has now been restricted on iPhones in ChinaApple has limited filesharing features on iPhones in China, a month after reports that anti-government protesters w&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[690,41,50,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-protest"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50136,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50135\/revisions\/50136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}