Apple will finally address a Safari restriction workaround that has been around for years after the bug was highlighted by The Wall

Apple has promised to fix a years-old bug in its parental controls that allows children to bypass restrictions and view adult content online.The bug, by which a child could get around controls by simply entering a certain nonsense phrase into the address bar on Safari,

The bug goes like this: kids can circumvent content restrictions by entering a specific string of characters into Safari’s browser bar. Security researchers Andreas Jägersberger and Ro Achterberg reported this bug twice in 2021 and,

Apple is currently working on a fix for the bug affecting Screen Time. The built-in parental feature allows kids to access even the darkest sides of things.

The software bug allowed children to bypass parental controls and view porn, violent images and illicit drugs, according to the WSJ report.

Among the content that children have been able to access despite restrictions are those concerning porn, violence and illegal drugs. This failure of parental restriction settings was caused by a bug in Apple software.

A bug that lets users circumvent Apple's Screen Time parental controls, and corporate web blacklists, was discovered in 2020, but Apple has refused to fix it — until now.