iOS 16 will let you bypass CAPTCHAs on some apps and websites
by Mitchell Clark from The Verge - All Posts on (#60JHA)
Using tech called Private Access Tokens." | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge When iOS 16 comes out later this fall, you may notice that you don't have to deal with as many annoying CAPTCHAs asking you to slide a puzzle piece or distinguish between a hill and a mountain. That's because Apple's introducing a feature for its iPhones and Macs called Automatic Verification, which let some sites know that you're not a bot without you actually having to do anything (via MacRumors).
Apple has worked with two major content delivery networks, Fastly and Cloudflare, to develop the system. When it launches with iOS 16 and macOS Ventura, sites that use either of the services to defend against spam should be able to take advantage of the system and stop showing you so many CAPTCHAs. If you're attentive to how many sites go...