FaceTime in iOS 26 will freeze your call if someone starts undressing

https://9to5mac.com/2025/07/02/facetime-in-ios-26-will-freeze-your-call-if-someone-starts-undressing/

21•greenie_beans•5h ago

Comments

bigyabai•5h ago

You know, I'd really rather not have an AI model trained on detecting people stripping naked on any of my webcam-enabled devices.

mikece•5h ago

So... use Signal or Telegram?

bigyabai•5h ago

Will that delete the model? Can my consent be used to stop this functionality from being downloaded, besides buying a new phone?

NewJazz•2h ago

Yeah makes you wonder how they are training these kinds of models... And who is doing that work.

Like the social media moderators who get exposed to mountains of horrifying content.

bigyarnn•5h ago

Can we have a European version, that freezes if someone shows violence? Nobody cares about nudity.

1over137•3h ago

This was my first thought too. US culture is weirdly prudish about nudity. I guess it comes from their flavour of Christianity? That’s fine of course, but they foist this on the whole world. ;(

krapp•3h ago

Which is weird when you consider an entire book of the Bible is a poem extolling the qualities and virtues of King Solomon's... er... "royal staff."

mensetmanusman•3h ago

Fundamentalism from a backlash to English Anglicism historically.

mensetmanusman•3h ago

They care so much they are banning clothing:

https://metro.co.uk/2025/03/10/this-european-beach-enforcing...

Aha

mathiaspoint•5h ago

That's so creepy. The machine shouldn't care.

F7F7F7•5h ago

Jefferey Toobin would have loved this feature during COVID.

lofaszvanitt•4h ago

Maybe it's time to start a movement, that educates people to ditch the control/oppressive device from their back pockets and be satisfied with a more modest but open system in every respect. All the top tier phones look and feel the same. Everything is locked down, you can't customize anything, everything needs a payment. Ridiculous.

TexanFeller•4h ago

At most I could accept if this were a feature for children’s accounts that parents could choose to enable. I’m not sure I’m Ok with even that though because slippery slopes quite often start with “ think of the children”.

Audio/Video/Chat services should probably be demanded(maybe even required by law) to be dumb pipes that never filter ANYTHING.

vr46•1h ago

No one cares about the children/elderly/disabled/etc until they want to argue over something

shaky-carrousel•4h ago

> In other words, everything happens on-device so Apple has no idea about the contents of your call.

Of course. And we have to trust that it is true and won't change depending on country and/or target.

msgodel•1h ago

Don't know why this is downvoted. It's pretty difficult to even get a hold of the binary artifacts, much less the source, to verify.

For all you know they could very well be sending back embeddings or have it trigger recording.

deadfoxygrandpa•47m ago

just dont grant internet access to face time and then you can be sure they arent uploading any recordings to their own servers

msgodel•42s ago

lol It's been a while but I was under the impression Face Time was a VOIP app. That's a little useless without internet.

randombits0•3h ago

There goes my part time job.

HaZeust•1h ago

That's like a third of the value proposition for FaceTiming with an S/O.

nozzlegear•3m ago

What about FaceTiming with grandma?

defrost•1h ago

So, .. no application for it in the remote consult medical domain then.

m463•52m ago

I feel this is a situation where half the world is unaware of a specific problem.

And the other half probably doesn't tell them.

bigyabai•40m ago

Is the problem in question consent over how my phone works?

We're fast approaching the "yes it's bad for privacy but think of the kids" threshold between this and client-side scanning. Both can be used as instruments of blackmail from a sufficiently motivated threat actor.

ulfw•41m ago

There goes America spreading its puritan values around the globe again.

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