Apple iOS 16, the world’s most advanced and the newest operating system developed by Apple has introduced a feature for its iPhones and Macs called Automatic Verification. This feature let its users to bypass the CAPTCHAs in certain supported apps and websites which can be found in the Settings app. During the time of enabling, Apple says that the iCloud will automatically and privately verify the device and Apple ID account in the background will eliminate the need for CAPTCHA verification prompt that the apps and websites present to its users.

Well, the Automatic Verification is enabled by default in the first betas of iOS 16 and iPadOS 16. Similarly, this feature is supported on macOS Ventura. But according to the report, all of these software updates are in beta, currently and it will be released during the end of this year.

Apple’s new feature seemed beneficial for the users, as they don’t have to deal with those annoying CAPTCHAs anymore which usually ask the users to select the traffic lights or to differentiate between a hill and a mountain. This new system provides a better user experience for signing into or creating an account, along with improved privacy and accessibility of the user as compared to CAPTCHA.

Apple has worked with two major content delivery networks, Fastly and Cloudflare, to develop the system. These networks have announced support for Private Access Tokens, which will have the ability to bypass CAPTCHAs from multiple apps and websites. Well, the simplified idea of how it works is here: one’s device looks at a variety of factors to determine whether its a human or not. When we go to a website that would normally ask to fill out a CAPTCHA, that site can ask the phone or computer if a human is using it. If the device says yes, we’ll be able to use it, rightly. As soon as the feature gets launch with iOS 16 and macOS Ventura, the sites which use either of the services to go against the spam would be able to take advantage of the system and stop these sites to show so many CAPTCHAs.

Well, Apple isn’t the only one working on this technology Google has built a similar system on Chrome around two years ago, which focuses on third-party issuers instead of doing verification itself.