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by wlesieutre 1028 days ago
You can if you're a school!

https://support.apple.com/en-hk/guide/deployment-education/e...

The feature has existed for years, Apple just won't let you use it because they'd rather sell separate devices to every family member.

For all the talk about environmentalism and their elaborate phone recycling robots, they're not too concerned about the "reduce" part of "reduce, reuse, recycle." Never mind that it's the most important one that you're supposed to do before the others.

EDIT - I'm aware a local users system without a network login system would require a slightly different implementation from schools, but a small 2.8 trillion dollar company like Apple could figure it out if they wanted to

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I've heard that the multi user feature for schools is pretty skin deep and that it basically just acts as an auth for apps which store all data remotely. Not at all something you could just drop on regular consumers.