I don’t expect most iPhone users to ever change their default settings, but it’s nice that it will be possible in a year.

Who knows, maybe one day you can run actual Firefox on them too? :p

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    An European iPhone, aka an iPhone which will get these features, is identified by a background process named countryd, introduced in iOS 16. Its only purpose is to compute and predict the most likely location of the user (as in country/region) and lock down features accordingly.

    These are only some of the factors taken into the equation:

    • GPS location
    • Wi-Fi location
    • Wi-Fi hotspot country codes
    • Cellular/GSM country codes
    • IP address
    • Home and roaming operator regions
    • Apple Account region
    • Device region
    • Satellite reachability

    countryd takes in all of these and more as input to provide the most likely country of the user. If that country is in the EU, then 💥 Sideloading, Default Apps, etc etc etc goodies