> Bioweapon Defense Mode. Nearly nobody ever needs it

Raging wildfires causing smog all over the west coast beg to differ. Having built-in HEPA filtration is fantastic.

"Bioweapon defense mode" is a marketing ploy for "there's a HEPA cabin filter and a recirculation function", both of which a massive number of other cars on the market have both of as well.

You mean false advertising? Because unless is it an actual overpressure system, using compressed and probably stored air, that VX gas is getting in.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7158270/ "In principle, homes could be outfitted with High-Efficiency Particle (HEPA) filters, although this would require substantial modifications to most home heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems and would require positive overpressure systems to prevent infiltration through cracks. However, hermetically sealed office buildings frequently have HEPA filters and positive overpressure HVAC systems, making it easier to ‘harden’ such buildings if they are likely targets of attack or if they perform critical functions in the midst of an emergency."

Different take… Apple is going to push the idea wider and this is their test audience.

It wouldn’t surprise me if the anti-googled, that is instead of enforcing adoption of a web technology because they own the browser market, stopping all the misused technologies they don’t want to have to explicitly protect for.