Will FaceTime In IOS 26 Freeze Your Call If Someone Starts Undressing? (9to5mac.com) 43
Long-time Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shared this report from the Apple news blog 9to5Mac:
iOS 26 is a packed update for iPhone users thanks to the new Liquid Glass design and major updates for Messages, Wallet, CarPlay, and more. But another new feature was just discovered in the iOS 26 beta: FaceTime will now freeze your call's video and audio if someone starts undressing.
When Apple unveiled iOS 26 last month, it mentioned a variety of new family tools... "Communication Safety expands to intervene when nudity is detected in FaceTime video calls, and to blur out nudity in Shared Albums in Photos." However, at least in the iOS 26 beta, it seems that a similar feature may be in place for all users — adults included.
That's the claim of an X.com user named iDeviceHelp, who says FaceTime in iOS 26 swaps in a warning message that says "Audio and video are paused because you may be showing something sensitive," giving users a choice of ending the call or resuming it.
9to5Mac says "It's unclear whether this is an intended behavior, or just a bug in the beta that's applying the feature to adults... [E]verything happens on-device so Apple has no idea about the contents of your call."
When Apple unveiled iOS 26 last month, it mentioned a variety of new family tools... "Communication Safety expands to intervene when nudity is detected in FaceTime video calls, and to blur out nudity in Shared Albums in Photos." However, at least in the iOS 26 beta, it seems that a similar feature may be in place for all users — adults included.
That's the claim of an X.com user named iDeviceHelp, who says FaceTime in iOS 26 swaps in a warning message that says "Audio and video are paused because you may be showing something sensitive," giving users a choice of ending the call or resuming it.
9to5Mac says "It's unclear whether this is an intended behavior, or just a bug in the beta that's applying the feature to adults... [E]verything happens on-device so Apple has no idea about the contents of your call."
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Just a Parental Control (Score:1, Offtopic)
Congrats on demonstrating that you and the whole MAGA morons have no fucking clue what DEI means.
He also demonstrated he has no idea what MAGA folks believe. You seem to suffer from a bit of that too. The far left's portrayal of MAGA is about as accurate as the far right's portrayal of DEI.
It gives you the option to view. How dare Apple give you an option to not show nudity, where is the world coming to ?
Imagine it being an option under parental controls. MAGA, independents, progressives, ... all will likely applaud the option.
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MAGA folks are about the dumbest bunch of morons around.
They say they believe in "fiscal responsibility", and they just got stuffed with a bill for the better part of 10 trillions, of which they'll see zilch.
They say they believe in "states' rights", and yet they see no problem with trump trying to trample on those rights.
They say they believe in "peace", yet they have no problem with their chieftain bombing Gulf countries like he's some GW Bush.
And so on.
Actually, calling the MAGATs morons is an insult to
Re: Just a Parental Control (Score:2)
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All kinds of germans support hitler. Some even celebrated the buidling of dachau.
Good thing we have neither. Studied both. Visited the latter. You have no clue, just a false political demonization, ironically the sort of thing Hitler had done.
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Re: The Nanny App (Score:2)
Because they are no more liberal than Tesla was
Re: The Nanny App (Score:2)
Re: The Nanny App (Score:2)
We can't write! (Score:2)
We're illiterate charter school graduates.
What state of undress is acceptable? (Score:4, Interesting)
Can I take a coat off? What about going shirtless? What about taking hijab or turban off, which may be intimate state of undress in some cultures? What about taking a glass eye out? What about animals, if my cat flashes his butthole in the view of camera while I am on the call, would that get me red-flagged? What about object mis-identification, can I eat a banana while of the call?
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Keep your burka on, you sexy minx!
AI can add the burka (Score:2)
Keep your burka on, you sexy minx!
No need. AI can overlay a burka if female features are detected. :-)
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Seems like a good feature⦠(Score:2)
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Yes, no data is sent to a third party... except Apple and the FBI.
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Playing it out, you do get to that point. It might be an opt-in function to start but then the "let's do more" crowd gets the idea to background record everything in case if flags nudity and then you can auto-upload that to ... where ever police FYI something something.
Never mind they'll bury in the TOS that every call becomes 'anonymized training data' even if you don't use the service. There's a point where every interaction is scrutinized by some AI or algorithm and we're no longer adults but baby-sat
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> When the $13.95 monthly Big Blur Coverage supplementary fee is disclosed.
Don't be ridiculous. This is Apple. You will get Apple Blur for free, but it will only cover about 10 pixels of naughty bits. For complete coverage, you'll need Apple Blur Plus for $13.95 a month. But Apple Blur and Blur Plus will only be available on higher end iPhones.
It was a feature request from CNN (Score:5, Funny)
"Jeffrey Toobin is back at CNN eight months after exposing himself on Zoom"
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/10... [cnn.com]
Is it local AI (Score:2)
Could be Tim Cook wants all your video uploaded to Apple to .. uh train the the AI?
Makes sense (Score:2)
It's called FaceTime, not DickTime. ;-)
So, um (Score:1)
So it is just normal japanese pr0n (Score:2)
Is this for real? (Score:2)
Wouldn't be surprised if the next bit was "Oh and by the way, we had some of your videos sent to our contractors
This whole idea of being tethered to their apps within the ecosystem is bad enough, but this just feels like a bridge too far.
What's so special about Facetime anyway, just Signal FFS. It does video
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especially great for Pentagon employees
No thanks. I've already seen La Cage aux Folles.
No bobs and vegana??? (Score:2)
Don't freeze it (Score:2)
Just slow it down and sync it with the music [youtube.com].
Training your AI with Richard Pix (Score:2)
For your safety (Score:2)
How does one distinguish school-girl nipples from slutty-woman nipples? This will probably apply to everyone, including shirt-less men. As amusing as automatically protecting men is, 'protecting' women is a slippery slope.
On the one hand, women need to be protected from dick pics and themselves. On the other, this is normalizing censorship: That has been increasing for 20 years.
Someone vs You. Matching Rates? (Score:2)
Slashdot title: "freeze your call if someone starts undressing"
iOS Warning: "paused because you may be showing something sensitive"
Those are two very different statements. Meaning this system doesn't stop incoming content, it just gives you a speedbump when giving out nudes.
And where's the test data set? What skin tones does it work on? What body shapes? I assume this news would be bigger if Apple finally got all that right rather than all the other nudity detectors which get so many things wrong. If I
Until it's "MY" AI... (Score:2)
Until it's my personal, private "AI" that's doing the 'thinking' about things...which doesn't share back to anyone...I've really limited interest in every cloud provider directly snooping all my data. E2EE is frankly the name of the game, and if you design your apps to access the decrypted in-flight data for 'monitoring' purposes then you've effectively built in the back-door the EU mandated recently.
In a perfect world E2EE should be available for all services - especially with things like cloud storage -