When the phrase "Community Likely Contains" appears on your iPhone screen inappropriate materials", many people are confused. What is the reason for such restrictions and how to solve them this problem in VK? Here's a little instruction.

Attention!After Pavel Durov left his post in the leadership of VKontakte, the social network began to strictly control the content and its compliance with the age limit.

Most common cause the appearance of a phrase about restricting access to a group is the presence in it of materials that fall into the 18+ category. In addition, extremist content, calls for violence, and pornographic materials are blocked.

An absolute ban is imposed on groups aimed at harassing and publicly insulting individuals, and on public pages promoting the use of drugs that contribute to their distribution.

In addition, Apple has a strict policy that prevents users from accessing prohibited materials. Therefore, those using devices on the iOS platform most often complain about the appearance of the above-mentioned recording on the screen.

Important!Just because access to a community has been restricted does not mean that it actually contains dangerous content. The word “Probably” in the warning only indicates administrators’ suspicions. However, this is enough to instantly block a group.

One more nuance. The inscription on the screen may appear in cases where the creator of the community himself has set the age limit for guests and subscribers. This allows you to work within the law and ethical standards.

How to fix the ban problem

At the moment, there are several options to “deceive” the system and still enter the forbidden community. This:

• To access the Internet, use a browser rather than the official Apple application. For example, Google Chrome.
• If possible, view materials from a PC. This works in almost 100% of cases.
• If for some reason the user is not satisfied with working through the browser, and he definitely wants to log into the social network through the application, you can download one of the unofficial applications. “Kate Mobile” and “Tsarsky VK” are especially popular. They are presented in Google Market and AppStore, but here you need to remember some risks associated with the security of personal data.
• In the settings of the VKontakte page, indicate an age above 18 years. In this case, all communities will be available to the user, even those with an age limit of 18+. However, here you also need to remember a certain danger: VK moderators carefully monitor the accuracy of the information specified in the questionnaire. Therefore, if the deception is revealed, the personal page may be blocked.
• If the administrator of a blocked community wants to solve the problem of the appearance of the phrase about inappropriateness, he just needs to cancel the age limit in the group settings.

Important!If all attempts to circumvent the ban have been unsuccessful, all that remains is to wait until the creator of the public solves this problem. To do this, he must convince the technical support service in VK about the safety of the submitted content.

Thus, owners of mobile devices running on the iOS platform most often encounter blocking of VKontakte communities. This ban can be introduced either by the social network itself or by Apple. Such tough measures are associated with strengthening control over censorship, which dates back to 2017. However, the most advanced users have figured out how to get around the sanctions: log in through a browser or an unofficial application, view the content via a PC, and indicate an age over 18 years. And the group administrator in the settings section can cancel the age limit, and then access to the content will be open to all network users.

The main thing to remember is that only high-quality, reliable content that complies with ethical and legal standards guarantees the safety of the community. Even if such a group is accidentally blocked, VK moderators will correct this error within a couple of hours. But prohibited materials take the public beyond the “rules” social network and therefore it will not be possible to get him out of the “ban”.

The social network “VK” constantly produces various errors and introduces restrictions. At the moment, iPhone users often encounter the error “The community probably contains inappropriate materials and is not available for viewing,” which appears in the mobile version of the network. The restriction blocks the ability to subscribe to groups and view the content contained in it. We will tell you what this limitation is and how to quickly bypass it on your iPhone.

Why does iPhone block VK groups?

Most often, society can be blocked due to 18+ materials. Also subject to such a ban are public pages that are of an extremist nature, calling for violence, etc. What is characteristic is that it is the VK platform for iOS that is subject to a warning that the page contains inappropriate materials and is not available for viewing on VK. This is due to the strict policy of Apple Corporation, which does not want to show prohibited materials to its users. It is not a fact that blocked groups actually contain such information - everything is done at the discretion of Apple, they also write “Probably”.

The second point is that the community administrators themselves set an age limit for subscribers and guests. This approach is necessary if general rules morality and law.

How to remove restrictions on iPhone

First of all, in the “VK” profile you need to set the age above 18 years. Additionally, we also do the same in our Apple ID account. After this, the restrictions should be lifted. If you are a group admin and receive questions like this, review and remove the age restrictions for viewing your community pages. This is all done in the group management menu.

Browser

The official VKontakte application on iPhone should be closed. Now we go to the social network through any browser. We log in and go to the public page that interests us. He should be without a ban. This is due to the fact that browsers are not subject to censorship by Apple, since they are not its product. This corporation always monitors copyright, developer requirements and licenses.

Open the blocked community via VK in the browser

Third Party Application

If you abandon the official VK application and use unofficial clients, the ban will also disappear. You can find it in the store a large number of such software designed to work on a social network, for example, such as “Tsarsky VK” or “Kate Mobile”. We choose the software we like and use it. The corporation's censorship circumvention is in effect again.

Bide the time

If the ban is imposed accidentally, it will undoubtedly be lifted after some time. If it doesn’t work for you, wait a few days, and then try visiting the public again. It would be a good idea to contact the group admins to clarify the situation. You can also write to the developers “VK”. The main thing is to be persistent in getting an answer. This is also true for owners of communities that have received a ban. Be sure to seek the removal of restrictions, because otherwise the group’s progress will be minimal.

With the departure of Pavel Durov from the company, the social network VKontakte began a systematic struggle for censorship on the Internet. Concern for the mental health of users forces the site administration to impose ever greater restrictions. They are often implemented so ineptly that any user can bypass them.

Reason for appearance

This notification appears for two reasons: either the administrator does not quite understand how to properly moderate the community, or the content is truly illegal.

Let's look at these two reasons in more detail. What may be illegal content? This category includes:

• Publications promoting the romance of the underworld or telling how to commit crimes.
• Content showing pornographic or erotic materials. Here the rule has a peculiar exception. Erotica is not a taboo topic for community building. The main thing is that no persons under the age of 18 participate in the materials.
• Groups dedicated to bullying or insulting individuals. Such publics were popular several years ago. For content to become inappropriate, all it takes is for a couple of offended individuals to complain to support, after which the group will likely be blocked.
• Publications located in an illegal field that are openly fraudulent.
• Content containing calls for drug use, promoting substance abuse or advertising the distribution of narcotic and other psychotropic substances.
• Posts promoting extremism. No one can clearly answer what this is today and will not be able to in the future, but this is the most common reason for the message “probably the community contains materials that are unacceptable in VK.”
• Publications that incite hatred towards individuals social groups or categories of people. Anything can fall under this category - from an aggressive political magazine to a social community based on the unifying factor of hatred towards someone.

A lot of other things can fall under the concept of illegal content, but the group will then be blocked from the outside, and a court decision or a prosecutor’s order will be indicated as the reason.

There is also an age rating. Often, wanting to add status to their community, its management labels it “18+”. In this case, the message “the community probably contains inappropriate materials” will appear in the official VK application, and the content will not be available to minor users.

This is a kind of bug that can be fixed quite simply. We'll talk about this in more detail later.

How to get around

There are several options here. The message “the community probably contains inappropriate materials” on VKontakte can be bypassed in several ways:

• If you are an administrator, then simply refuse age markings. Often it is completely unnecessary.
• If you are a user, then the message “the community probably contains inappropriate materials” can be bypassed by using a browser instead of using the official application.
• A similar option is to log into a social network from a computer. Typically this will be sufficient.
• If you find it uncomfortable to sit in a browser and fundamentally want to use applications, then the message “the community probably contains inappropriate materials” can be bypassed by switching to unofficial applications. They are available in both the AppStore and Google Market. However, in in this case It is worth remembering that an unofficial application does not guarantee the security of data transmission.
• The final way to get around the "community may contain inappropriate content" notification is to violate the user's rules. The fact is that the social network prohibits providing false information in your profile. If you are ready to accept such a small deception, then you can simply change your age to 18+.

If it didn't work out

If all methods have been tried, you will have to come to terms with the idea that the public content is prohibited. All that remains is to give the community administrators time to solve problems with the social network’s support staff.

The situation is sadder when the content is blocked by a court decision or law enforcement agencies. It also happens that the state, represented by Roskomnadzor, responds to citizens’ complaints and demands that the site owners stop illegal actions in the information space. If this happens, it is most likely forever. Of course, there are hundreds of ways to get around this ban, but this is a topic for a separate article.

Thus, we see that the last stronghold of free information space is surrendering under the pressure of a merciless system, is this good or bad? We'll find out over time. In any case, every moderator should increased attention treat the content that he creates in order to provide users with exclusively useful and interesting information that will not harm and force the management of the social network to take drastic blocking measures based on the age of the users.