14 DAY TRIAL // A number of schools that have had students’ iPads upgraded to the new iOS 7 have discovered that Apple’s new mobile operating system strips the tablets of some filters that prevent students from messing about.
These “supervision profiles,” as AllThingsD calls them, are erased by the iOS 7 upgrade “depriving administrators of their remote-management privileges and eliminating the filtering protections they had established to protect students from inappropriate content they might stumble upon outside school.”
The issue isn’t all that serious, and some schools’ administrators have quickly turned to the settings pane in leftover iOS 6 devices to prevent iOS 7 upgrades. Finally, Apple promises to patch this hole soon.
“Some business and education users have reported that their supervised devices have reverted to unsupervised when they upgrade to iOS 7,” Apple spokeswoman Trudy Muller said. “We are aware of this issue, and will have a fix this month.”