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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)

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Post by dyauspitr »

runjake wrote: post #10
akersten wrote: post #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 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...

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.

Re: iPhones with iOS 26 are freezing FaceTime calls when they detect nudity (2025)

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Post by doubled112 »

add-sub-mul-div wrote: post #19
kentm wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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.

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

Re: iPhones with iOS 26 are freezing FaceTime calls when they detect nudity (2025)

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Post by add-sub-mul-div »

doubled112 wrote: post #22
add-sub-mul-div wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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

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".

Re: iPhones with iOS 26 are freezing FaceTime calls when they detect nudity (2025)

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Post by dmonitor »

add-sub-mul-div wrote: post #19
kentm wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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.

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.

Re: iPhones with iOS 26 are freezing FaceTime calls when they detect nudity (2025)

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Post by ryanisnan »

ggoo wrote: post #24

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

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.

Re: iPhones with iOS 26 are freezing FaceTime calls when they detect nudity (2025)

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Post by nomel »

comrade1234 wrote: post #7

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!

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

Re: iPhones with iOS 26 are freezing FaceTime calls when they detect nudity (2025)

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Post by IFC_LLC »

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.

Re: iPhones with iOS 26 are freezing FaceTime calls when they detect nudity (2025)

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Post by kentm »

add-sub-mul-div wrote: post #19
kentm wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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.

Apple claims its on-device, and if thats true then the phone company is not spying on users.
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