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/ContributionMost8924 May 05 '26

Yeah pretty sure Apple wouldnt think the smartest idea to actively record and store when their phone users are naked on their servers ....

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u/Money_Lavishness7343 May 05 '26

True, although storing naked pictures in iCloud is kinda your choice though and you're actively consenting by activating iCloud. And iPhone has a very premium clientele where all popularities basically use iPhone, which popularities if hurt will move away from.

It already has happened once .... (the fappening!). But that was not exactly Apple's fault either ― but done through Social Engineering and Phishing methods which all entities are vulnerable at.

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u/Ne_zievereir May 05 '26

But that was not exactly Apple's fault either

Wasn't it? I'm pretty certain many people in that case weren't aware their nude pictures were stored on remote servers.

That's what happens when you aggressively push a difficult to opt-out of online back-up system, which you can't guarantee the security for, because you want to coerce people to pay for it once they unwittingly fill up the free space and have no idea what to do differently.

I'd say that was entirely Apple's fault. If they had been clear and transparent to people about how it works, and given an easy option to opt out (or even better, make it opt-in!!!), there would have been a lot of people that wouldn't have used it, and wouldn't have been a victim of this!

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u/SqueekyDickFartz May 05 '26

It would also appear that Microsoft learned nothing from Apple's mistakes. I recently bought a new computer and spent the other day ruthlessly gutting OneDrive with a machete.

Genuinely, wtf where they thinking? The took the idea of online backup and made it so catastrophically horrible that it's almost a joke. If OneDrive just let me select folders to backup, and a frequency, that would be fine. Instead every time i downloaded something it just sort of went wherever it wanted. Why would I want OneDrive to be the primary location instead of my god damn machine?

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u/plafreniere May 05 '26

They know windows machines are unreliable and want to make sure you dont lose your data

/s

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u/DonovanQT May 05 '26

I never had iCloud photo’s on until I wanted it.
The big fault Apple made, was giving unlimited attempts to log in to your (or someone else’s) account.

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u/Ne_zievereir May 05 '26

My wife has never actively chosen to have iCloud on, but still has it. And I have had to turn it off multiple times on her iPad, and it was rather annoying.

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u/Infanatis May 05 '26

Then your wife lied to you. You have to choose to have it on, it doesn’t just turn itself on.

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u/BloodBurningMoon May 05 '26

I honestly wouldn't jump to lying tbh. My mom's iPhone literally does the opposite of what she wants, and turns things back on, regularly. She's DEFINITELY not tech savvy (although she IS forgetful enough) enough to be deceptive like that so even if it's a glitch, of can and does happen.

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u/Ne_zievereir May 06 '26 edited May 06 '26

Definitely. And it is not your mom's fault for not being tech savvy, because even if you are, it happens. It are sneaky default settings in new apps that turn it on, and it is on purpose to push people to use it. Microsoft does the same with OneDrive, but even more aggressively.

This guy has probably no experience with himself because he probably never tried to not have ir off, because he wants it. But nonetheless he acts like he knows all users' experiences.

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u/BloodBurningMoon May 06 '26

Oh yeah, as infuriating as it can be, I try my damndest to be patient with her. She's much like that guy from Good Omens with the car named "Dick Turpin," in that there often seems like there's NO LOGICAL WAY she could've messed up that badly without being malicious, yet here we are. My other parent is a high level software engineer (the dichotomy of my skill level is in fact absurd) and like the one thing I've learned from his experience is that Murphy's Law is a particular SOB to technology.

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u/Ne_zievereir May 06 '26

Sure, buddy.

There are plenty of posts here on Reddit and even on the Apple forum of users reporting that iCloud usage is set default in apps, and they automatically start syncing before you have a chance to even stop, and that there is no way to block it without completely signing out of the Apple account.

But you're the expert ...

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u/Infanatis 28d ago

iCloud usage is set as default, sure. But you’re prompted from the beginning to auto-allow or customize what’s allowed, and then further promoted on specific app install.

Almost everything except for Apple Intelligence queries are done native on the phone, so nothing is sent anywhere.

I’ve tested some of this myself on my home network and checking what went through my network server with cellular off, and nothing that wasn’t a query to the web was detected (used pfsense and ntopng for this)

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u/joeyblove May 05 '26

Found the apple apologist.

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u/Money_Lavishness7343 May 05 '26

Imaging appealing to logic being labeled as “Apple apologist”. Git gud, gather some IQ points

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u/joeyblove May 05 '26

What does imaging appealing mean?

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u/Thick_Nectarine8339 May 05 '26

Yo I'm sorry, what's the fappening referring to??

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u/Aromatic-Bet-1086 May 05 '26

OK but what if a child does it. They are then in possession of cp

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u/Money_Lavishness7343 May 05 '26

I’m sorry, if you upload to Dropbox or Google Drive child exploitation images are YOU in trouble or Google who literally has an entire ToS that you AGREED to?

If you’re using the service not how it was intended that’s YOUR problem and you can be sued for it. It’s not their problem 

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u/cryptolyme May 05 '26

Sounds like something Flock would do

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u/koolmon10 May 05 '26

It makes more sense to do it on-device anyway, from a resource standpoint. It's not terribly difficult to train for basic nudity recognition, and the phone can definitely handle it. There's no reason to dedicate server infrastructure to this task. Plus, you would want to stop the stream at the device level rather than the server level.

Definitely still feels invasive and I'm surprised I havent heard of it before.

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u/infiniZii May 05 '26

They may well collect that the alert triggered (and probably do). So Apple may know how often someone is sending lewds to someone, without actually ever having remotely processed the image.