iOS 15.5 Blocks Sensitive Locations for Photo Memories
The third beta of iOS 15.5, available today, brings a change to the Photos application and more precisely to the functionality called Memories. The system now blocks so-called sensitive places.
A lock in place for Memories in iOS 15.5.
By analyzing the iOS 15.5 beta 3 code, 9to5Mac spotted a new list called “Sensitive Places”. It allows the Memories feature to not display photos that were taken in these locations. All places have a link with the Holocaust. Here are the places in question:
- Yad Vashem Memorial
- Dachau Concentration Camp
- American Holocaust Museum
- Majdanek Concentration Camp
- Holocaust Memorial in Berlin
- Schindler’s factory
- Belzec extermination camp
- Anne Frank House
- Sobibor extermination camp
- Treblinka extermination camp
- Chelmno-Kulmhof extermination camp
- Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp
Each location is assigned a latitude, longitude, and radius, so the Photos app will ignore images taken at those locations when creating new memories.
We can imagine that Apple will update this list over new versions of iOS. But the manufacturer does not yet communicate publicly on this new system which will be in place for everyone with the final version of iOS 15.5. This should arrive within a few weeks.
