After Samsung now Apple: This feature can destroy relationships

SMARTPHONE

November 11, 2024 at 5:09 p.m

With iOS 18, Apple introduced a feature that Samsung has had for a long time. Now there is debate on the Internet about whether this feature affects trust in relationships.

Once discovered, the new Apple feature can trigger arguments between couples. (Source: IuriiSokolov / depositphotos.com)

At the end of September, Apple released the next “major” version of its iPhone operating system: iOS 18. This update brings numerous new features for supported iPhones. Including one that people with a Samsung cell phone might know. However, Apple has chosen a form of presentation that particularly highlights th is function and is already causing users to ask questions about trust in relationships on the Internet.

It’s about a feature that makes it possible to “hide” or “hide” individual apps. These cannot then be opened on the iPhone unless you unlock them with Face ID, fingerprint or passcode. Now, however, this feature has been noticed – because the originally “hidden” apps were still visible in a certain way.

When “hidden” apps are visible

In one post in social network threads The user “bee_afton87” shows a supposedly empty folder on a home screen that looks like it comes from an iPhone. The folder titled “Hidden” shows seven placeholders for apps. bee_afton87 writes that Apple has created new uncertainty.

The post shows a hidden apps folder on a home screen, presumably an iPhone. (Source: bee_afton87 (on Threads))

Without being explicitly addressed, many people in the comments refer to this feature in the context of couple relationships. Under the post, a fundamental discussion broke out about trust in partnerships and whether this feature contributes to people cheating on each other. One person even writes that anyone who uses this feature is guaranteed to cheat. It’s definitely not that easy to interpret, simply because it’s not clear who uses the feature and who doesn’t.

The Hidden folder is always visible

In our test with an iPhone with iOS 18.1, we also had the folder for hidden or hidden apps on the home screen – although there are no applications in it and the function is not used at all. For us, this folder looks exactly like the thread post mentioned above (as if there were at least seven apps in there).

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Apple is definitely not the first manufacturer to bring such a feature to its smartphones – but the first to impose it on its users. Anyone who uses a Samsung cell phone has been able to do so-called for some time now “Secure Folders” and also hide them from the home screen. The fact that this feature may be less well-known could be because Samsung didn’t directly put a “Hidden Apps” folder on the screen to draw our attention to the feature.