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Swift Playgrounds Is A Hidden Time Bomb
Effectively, this almost a jailbreak
3 min readJun 8, 2021
Swift Playgrounds was introduced to iPad in 2016 as an educational tool for learning Swift programming.
It was aimed squarely at children. Budding programmers learn the elements of the Swift language by giving commands to characters who move around a cartoon-like world.
It soon became much more with the capability of escaping the cartoon world to write more advanced code. Apple provided introductions to topics as advanced as Augmented Reality. Additionally, companies like Sphero could provide lessons and code for their robotic toys.
This was all still tightly sandboxed in Swift Playground, though, and these were not stand-alone apps.
