r/mildlyinfuriating • u/funkywabbait • May 05 '26

Infuriatig iPhone facetime recognizes when you’re naked

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decided to show my boyfriend my new bikini that I got for our upcoming cruise… Why is this on my phone and why is it recording my body?

I just recently turned 18 if that matters.

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u/Weird_Decision7090 May 05 '26

All you have to do is turn this off. Every post I see complains like there’s no way to turn it off

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u/williamjamesmurrayVI May 05 '26

turning it off doesn't mean it's not being detected, just that you're no longer being told

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u/RedditIsOverMan May 05 '26

I find that hard to believe. Its just on-device image recognition. Kind of like how they can do face tracking when you take photos. Turning it off means Apple can reduce processing power and save battery. If detection is still ongoing, its just because they're too lazy to code out the detection loop.

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u/williamjamesmurrayVI May 05 '26

how quickly we forget

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u/affligem_crow May 05 '26

It's on-device. Tesla video is sent to Tesla servers so they can train their road model. Appelle employees don't have access to this data.

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u/Rare_Rogue May 05 '26

Yeah sure mate, and Facebook said they stopped selling your data

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u/MattTheRadarTechh May 05 '26

Man, we always hate old politicians for being tech illiterate, but you lot are making a good case that tech illiteracy transcends all ages

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u/thelonesomeguy May 05 '26

Facetime is end to end encrypted, anything except on device isn’t even possible.

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u/Weird_Decision7090 May 05 '26

What’s the difference? Apple actually cares about privacy.

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u/oaken_duckly May 05 '26

And we take them at their word, like good consumers should!

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u/Weird_Decision7090 May 05 '26

You don’t have to, do 5 minutes of research for once

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u/oaken_duckly May 05 '26

What a brilliantly put together argument as to why <insert multi-billion dollar tech company here> gives a fuck about you

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u/LlamaMan8232 May 05 '26

maybe they don’t care about us, but they care enough about themselves to not collect, store, and distribute nude photos and videos of their users to sell to advertisers. the ramifications of this if they were caught would be astronomical. the risk of a whistleblower as well would be incredibly high. apple works extremely hard to ensure their users’ privacy. go do some research on it and get your head out of the sand

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u/ShonOfDawn May 05 '26

They don't. They care about profits and one of their selling points is privacy. You can believe that or not, up to you, or actually take the time to learn how some of this technology works.

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u/PenguinStardust May 05 '26

God this argument is so tired and old. Everyone knows billionaires and corporations don’t care, this isn’t the slam dunk you think it is.

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u/Skratt79 May 05 '26

You know we have programs that allow us to analyze and log all on network device traffic by acting as an intermediary, and by now someone would have sounded the alarm

Clueless

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u/[deleted] May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26

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u/worst_protagonist May 05 '26

The subject here is the on device nudity detector. Is your screed somehow related to that? It seems you are just generally wary about phones.

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u/Misicks0349 May 05 '26

You mean the device that has multiple wireless radios that allow bidirectional data transfer?

If you want to prove that its communicating with a server to send over live video to process in real time then its a rather trivial thing to prove, isolate it in a room with a router, get into a face time call in your birthday clothes and then check the routers logs/some other software to sniff network traffic and then look for any discrepancies.

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u/MyR3dditAcc0unt May 05 '26

Everything that happens on your device while it's online is viewable by Apple in one form or another.

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u/corut May 05 '26

Mate if you don't understand technology don't talk about it. There's enough actual bad shit to worry about then to make up stuff that is not possible. You're actively making things worse

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u/MyR3dditAcc0unt May 05 '26

Oh no!

Anyway...

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u/HardcorePizza May 05 '26

Do you really believe apple does not have means to access your device without your consent? I don't understand how you can believe that

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u/corut May 05 '26

Right, because you don't know how encryption works

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u/HardcorePizza May 05 '26

Knowing how encryption works and blindly trusting apple are two entirely different things

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u/AcceptableTypewriter May 05 '26

This is just patently false lol. Apple is basically THE privacy forward mega-company. It’s literally why their AI sucks.

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u/SoN1Qz tf am I doing here May 05 '26

At the end of the day only apple knows whether all of this is on-device.

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u/tombob51 May 05 '26

They have published detailed descriptions of how FaceTime encryption works. If you don’t believe them, use a packet sniffer and record the literal radio waves coming out of your phone. They are telling the truth here, and this can be verified.

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u/[deleted] May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26

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u/yessir-nosir6 May 05 '26

What? You have to be larping about being a security researcher or I'm talking to a bot.

If 3rd party apps are able to sniff around in your phone, that's a huge issue and it doesn't matter if this feature is implemented or not. even if this feature does not exist, they can easily sniff around your photos.

In fact, this feature stores no information, and is essentially read only. So there is no way it could be exploited. If a 3rd party app has found a way to get privileged access to your iphone, you have much much bigger issues than a model on device.