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Elle Redman

This clever iOS feature eliminates pesky CAPTCHA puzzles on iPhones and iPads

man typing on iPhone

Did you know you can avoid CAPTCHA popups on the iPhone if you're running iOS 16 on your device?

If you’re not familiar with the term, CAPTCHAs are essentially those (rather pesky) authentication puzzles, where websites and app sign-in screens require you to complete a small challenge. You may have seen these in the form of being asked to ‘select every photo containing traffic lights’, ‘select every photo containing mountains’ or my least favourite of all, to make sense of a line of squiggly text.

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