yeah fuck that
Welp, that’s the most Orwellian thing I’ve read all week…
Freezing? It’s so you can create a good screenshot, right?
This article is old as shit.
This is an article from july…?
July 2025, when iOS 26 was still only available in preview. It wasn’t released until September 2025.
What the fuck makes Apple think they have the right to not only spy on my private communications, but to also censor conversations between me and my wife?
Looks like it’s an option you have to turn on or can turn off.
Because photos and videos are analyzed on your device, Apple doesn’t receive an indication that sensitive content was detected and doesn’t get access to the photos or videos.
That doesn’t mean that - It could be on device AND send an indication…
Or, Apple is flat out lying and does get a copy of everything.
I’m like 99% certain there’s an option to turn it off.
Apple says the detection is done on-device, but it’s closed source and I can’t think of a way to test it so I wouldn’t trust it
The calls are encrypted with AES-256 so you’d have to have the phone decrypting the stream and then connecting to an Apple server for nudity verification without on-device detection. It’s entirely possible to verify/intercept what’s being communicated from a device even if it is closed source.
Who is to say it isnt on device but sending all the data on again? It being closed source is the issue. It existing is the issue.
Feature detection in images is extremely light weight so it seems that it would be fairly trivial to detect someones wang before the stream is encrypted in the first place. There is likely already a ton of processing done on raw camera data before it’s encrypted and sent off-device anyway.
