It's a fascinating solution to the annoyance of clicking on images to prove you are not a bot.
, which aim to replace passwords.) It works by moving the human verification process from the server to your device, ideally making things more frictionless, secure, and private.
When you use your iPhone, you take actions such as logging in with Face ID or Touch ID—actions that are almost impossible for a computer to fake. Combining that with rate-limiting and Apple can far more easily verify who is a human using their device in a normal manner and who is a bot than a website that you are only interacting with for a few moments can. Certificates stored in your device’s Secure Enclave would keep a record of all your regular human antics.
PATs allow websites and apps to automatically authenticate users in the background. When you attempt to log in, they would send an attestation request to iCloud that would check the certificates stored on your device. Assuming you’re using your iPhone or Mac normally, it would attest that you are human and provide a cryptographically signed token so you’d be able to continue without an additional challenge.
While this is undeniably more convenient, it also comes with some nice privacy benefits. Websites wouldn’t need to record your IP address or otherwise track your activity in order to verify you’re human. All that would happen privately on your device. You’d even be able to do things sometimes considered suspicious, like use a VPN, without automatically having to solve a CAPTCHA.
Automatic Verification will launch in iOS 16 and macOS Ventura. It’s currently enabled by default in the betas, though it can also be found in the Settings app by going to Apple ID > Privacy and Security and then scrolling down to Automatic Verification. With Google, Cloudflare, and Fastly all collaborating on this, support will hopefully be widespread by the time it officially launches later this year.
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