iPhones with iOS 26 are freezing FaceTime calls when they detect nudity (2025)
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Re: iPhones with iOS 26 are freezing FaceTime calls when they detect nudity (2025)
#2Pausing seems more accurate. Sounds like a nice feature and if you can turn it off then no downside.
Re: iPhones with iOS 26 are freezing FaceTime calls when they detect nudity (2025)
#3I wasn't looking for your take here, iPhone.
Re: iPhones with iOS 26 are freezing FaceTime calls when they detect nudity (2025)
#4as in, like, freezing so you get to see it longer?
Re: iPhones with iOS 26 are freezing FaceTime calls when they detect nudity (2025)
#5> 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.
Re: iPhones with iOS 26 are freezing FaceTime calls when they detect nudity (2025)
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Re: iPhones with iOS 26 are freezing FaceTime calls when they detect nudity (2025)
#7Nooo! 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!
Re: iPhones with iOS 26 are freezing FaceTime calls when they detect nudity (2025)
#8as in, like, freezing so you get to see it longer?
TFA says it pauses when it detects nudity on your end, not the other end. You probably know what you look like nude.
Re: iPhones with iOS 26 are freezing FaceTime calls when they detect nudity (2025)
#9Nooo! 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!
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Re: iPhones with iOS 26 are freezing FaceTime calls when they detect nudity (2025)
#10> 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 poin…
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...