iPhones Running iOS 26 Are Freezing FaceTime Calls When They Detect Nudity

https://www.pcmag.com/news/iphones-running-ios-26-freeze-facetime-calls-when-theres-nudity

47•vinni2•1h ago

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s0rce•1h ago

Pausing seems more accurate. Sounds like a nice feature and if you can turn it off then no downside.

xbar•1h ago

I wasn't looking for your take here, iPhone.

VirusNewbie•1h ago

as in, like, freezing so you get to see it longer?

mikestew•1h ago

TFA says it pauses when it detects nudity on your end, not the other end. You probably know what you look like nude.

akersten•1h ago

> Because the photos and videos are analyzed on your child's device, Apple doesn't receive an indication that nudity was detected and doesn't get access to the photos or videos as a result.

Apropos of nothing, I really don't love the construction of this reassurance. This is not actually a reasoned-through guarantee, it's just two things that happen to be true at the same time. But the latter could change at any point, on-device processing does not preclude the device notifying Apple about what it saw.

runjake•1h ago

The backdrop to this is a story from 2023 in which Apple attempted to do this and faced backlash. This received significant coverage worldwide at the time.

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-photo-scanning-csam-commun...

ribosometronome•56m ago

And since then, we've seen major companies pressured into instead ripping out E2E encryption from public and governmental child safety concerns.

akersten•53m ago

Yeah, it's clear to see that they'd want to get in front of something like that happening again. My point though is that the pull quote I highlighted is a flimsy reassurance because "it all happens on the device" does not at all prevent "Apple knowing about it," yet the sentence is constructed in a way that (tricks?) people into thinking it would.

dyauspitr•46m ago

But why would they want to be notified. Seems like this is the best case scenario for them. They’re taking action against the problem and at the same time cannot be approached to break their clients privacy. The only thing I can imagine is a government entity making them do it.

an0malous•1h ago

How is that “apropro of nothing”? Isn’t it apropro of the quote from the article you’re commenting on?

akersten•55m ago

Sure, what I meant is "without actually taking a stance on what the article is about and opinions on Apple's feature aside, I dislike the particular placation presented within"

comrade1234•1h ago

Nooo! My dear wife stop showing me your boobs even though we've been apart on business trips for two weeks and we're both bursting with lust. Please apple save me!

kentm•56m ago

It looks like you can click through it, so you can still have your sexy time. Based on the description, it seems like its intended to prevent accidents, which seems ok to me.

add-sub-mul-div•50m ago

Look how far we've regressed. Forty years ago if the phone company said it was going to spy on conversations and halt phone sex but don't worry because you can always choose to resume it, we'd never have accepted that.

doubled112•44m ago

Could the phone company have seen your junk? Or just heard the way you describe it?

add-sub-mul-div•37m ago

That distinction isn't important. We could take it for granted that our conversations wouldn't be analyzed for sexually explicit content, and then companies like Apple normalized the opposite. We hadn't yet been fooled by "think of the children".

dmonitor•24m ago

Is privacy a concern if the monitoring is locally processed? Apple claims it is.

I say it's amazing how far we've progressed. We could've prevented an entire Seinfeld episode if cameras could warn the user of the presence of nudity in their photos.

nomel•17m ago

Unless you're using a child account, where the guardian account enabled this feature, with intent, this isn't an issue! :D

htk•1h ago

What might be the impact on battery life?

joe_mamba•49m ago

If it lasts longer than 4 hours, contact the apple genius bar.

scratchyone•55m ago

This is an article from almost a year ago, last edited July 3, 2025...

NDlurker•50m ago

Is there a setting to send pictures to Tim Apple?

ggoo•30m ago

I truly don't understand why our society is so hung up on naked bodies.

ryanisnan•22m ago

Read the post.

edit: "This feature, spotted by iDeviceHelp, was originally revealed as part of an expansion of the company's family tools designed for children's Apple accounts."

Pretty clear, this was at least in part designed to prevent child sexual abuse.

supertrope•2m ago

Puritan influence.

IFC_LLC•6m ago

This “Ouch” moments when Apple does not want to stand in the front of the Congress trying to prove that they are in fact preventing bad people from abusing kids on one side and try to convince us that they do in fact keep our data secure.

It an interesting place to be in logistically. A very thin line to balance between two very bitter ends.

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