Seems like something in iOS 7 is stripping the filters that schools set up to prevent students from accessing adult content.
“Apple did not realize that installing iOS 7 would remove our (and thousands of organizations across the country) safety protection measure, which now makes the iPad devices unfiltered when accessing the Internet away from school,” said a memo from the Manitou Springs (Colo.) School District 14 to parents, verified by AllThingsD. “In the short term, the district will be collecting iPad devices at the end of each day until the safety protection measure is reinstalled.”
And Manitou Springs School District 14 is not an isolated case. According to Apple’s support forums and some external IT discussion boards, schools across the United States are grappling with the issue, which is causing a lot of angst and frustration for administrators.
Hopefully, Apple can get this fixed quickly, before it injures their reputation with schools.
But see http://speirs.org/blog/2013/10/1/battle-los-angeles.html for a possible explanation.
That has zero to do with this particular issue.
What is really the issue is that the school didn’t plan for the iOS software being downloadable by the kiddies. And that it might break apps etc much less their MDM because that company didn’t plan for such an issue and get access to the betas as a cost of doing business etc
These schools should have had the iOS update servers blocked on the wifi and via a MDM blacklist ages ago. That they didn’t isn’t an Apple issue.
Hopefully Apple can get this fixed quickly, before more kids wind up accessing inappropriate content on their school’s iPads.