Protect Your Children With Communication Safety
Another really useful feature that Sonoma brings to the table is Communication Safety.
When Communication Safety is on, your Mac can detect nude photos or videos before your child receives or sends them. Additionally, it’ll explain the situation to your kids and give them proper guidance.
This feature is perfect if you want to protect your children from unwanted content online, and it only takes a few clicks to set up. This is all you need to do:
- Click the Apple menu in the top left corner of your screen.
- Click on System Settings.
- Scroll down on the left sidebar and select Screen Time.
- Click on Communication Safety.
- Turn on Communication Safety.
And that’s all you need to do. For privacy purposes, all the processing occurs on your Mac; by default, no data is ever sent to Apple. If you do want to help Apple improve this feature, you can share some analytical data with the company by enabling Improve Communication Safety. Apple notes that the data is anonymized and no messages or media are ever shared even when this is enabled. Still, privacy-conscious users will likely want to keep this switched off, and the feature will work just as well either way.