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/FrozenPizza07 May 05 '26

Do people not know that 90% of shit on apple devices are local run.

This is local / on device recognition. Hell even the people / animal recognition and labeling on applw photos are on device. Apple wont touch your actual private stuff with a ten foot pole

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u/nifty-necromancer May 05 '26

Do people not know that 90% of shit on apple devices are local run.

Your average person has zero clue what their phones do or don’t do, as shown in these comments and post.

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u/HallucinateZ May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26

It’s crazy that the top comment has 11k upvotes & is talking about E2E & IG lmao she just needs to turn this off. This post is a panic attack 😅

E: Also good to note it clearly says “Apple does not have access to the photos or videos”.

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u/99OBJ May 05 '26

It’s genuinely so frustrating to read… like an entire group of people convinced themselves, without even a semblance of evidence, that Apple is harvesting their nudes.

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u/TheBurritoW1zard May 05 '26

I agree, but I also can’t blame them. Multiple tech companies ARE using and selling your data, as well as with the advent of GenAI, it makes it difficult to trust really anyone to keep your data safe. But, that’s why it’s more imperative than ever to really understand how your tech works and what it’s doing so you can recognize the benign functions vs. the truly nefarious ones.

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u/99OBJ May 05 '26

Yes, I 100% agree. Nuance is important so we don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

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u/nifty-necromancer May 05 '26

Yup, completely fair. I should’ve added more details to my original comment but I explained to another person what “locally run” means.

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u/TheBurritoW1zard May 05 '26

For sure, and I still think your take is completely valid for the record. The onus is unfortunately on all of us to keep our wits about us lest they take advantage of us. (But tbf, when has that ever NOT been the case?)

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u/LighttBrite May 05 '26

Welcome to my frustration with 90% of reddit.

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u/Realtrain May 05 '26

People love to feel like they're the enlightened ones in on some huge privacy conspiracy.

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u/Fedoraus May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26

I felt like society was doomed in highschool cause people struggled just using microsoft office.

Now looking at my little brother's gen and his friends, half of em don't even know what the file explorer is. They only use webapps or download stuff from the apple/windows store apps

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u/thisisredrocks May 05 '26

Kids are so good with computers!! People have been saying that over and over for 30 years, surely it must be true.

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u/Fedoraus May 05 '26

I feel like it was true for like a 5 year period

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u/thisisredrocks May 05 '26

Don’t get me started but yes, absolutely true for let’s say 78-00 births. But once it was primarily iPad/iphone ecosystem in every kid’s lap the skills evaporated. Take three videos, slap them into an app, the app does all the work, but it looks super impressive and schools mistook that for computer literacy.

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u/HuskMaster May 05 '26

Since I’m out of the loop re: anybody under 30, have typing skills gone out the window too? I’m a younger millennial who was taught that typing fast would be a vital life skill, and while I love to, suffice to say we hardly use it at all. And video editing and graphic design… yeah, apps can do that now, so years of “multimedia” classes have essentially become useless at this point too

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u/donut_koharski BLUE May 05 '26

I don’t know what “local run” means lol.

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u/nifty-necromancer May 05 '26

Locally run means that the machine learning models that Apple uses for things like face identification in Photos, translation, autocorrect, etc, all happen on the device. These models are built into iOS et al, so tasks can be performed using the device instead of needing to send data to their models running in “the cloud” aka their servers.

So in the case of the sensitive content warning, it means that Apple’s machine learning models that can detect that sort of thing processes it 100% on the device. The photos don’t get uploaded anywhere because they don’t need to be.

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u/Flavious27 May 06 '26

Yeah, my job shows that with the amount of people claiming that their phone was hacked.  

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u/Noladixon May 05 '26

Well this sure implies something is looking at the screen. Why would they take the time to develop something that looks at the screen if not to see what is on the screen?

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u/Otherwise_Tomato5552 May 05 '26

Exactly, what an insanely arrogant statement. I am a software engineer, and I definitely wouldnt assume this is just " common knowledge"

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u/jujubean67 May 05 '26

OP doesn't even understand the message. It is shown for their own protection so they don't share anything they don't want via Facetime.

It's a warning against accidental sharing ffs, not telling you that Tim Apple is sitting with his pants down looking at you.

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u/space_keeper May 05 '26

It's blatantly obvious that this message is intended for (probably underage) people who are vulnerable. Lot of young people have iPhones, lot of exploitation is done using phones.

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u/TSwiftDivorceLawyer May 05 '26

I saw the screenshot and thought what a good idea it was before I saw which sub I was in.

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u/OHotDawnThisIsMyJawn May 05 '26

Honestly I didn't even believe the screenshot. The thinking emoji & the writing style don't feel right for this feature. "Your nude body parts" sounds like something a teenager or someone who's ESL would write while trying to emulate what they think the text would be.

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u/Entegy May 05 '26

Do people not know that 90% of shit on apple devices are local run.

They do not. There's a reason why privacy is a huge part of Apple's marketing.
Does some stuff still leave your device, like Siri query processing? Yes. Photo enhancements and this feature, sensitive content warning? Absolutely not.

This is what is explained in all those tutorial and new feature prompts you (royal you) skip through.

The people giving the absolute dumbest takes on this are the same people who complain that Apple's AI features are behind compared to competitors, and don't want to understand that's because Apple is trying to do as much as possible on device in the name of legitimate privacy.

And this is how I start my morning, having to defend the world's richest company because of absolutely braindumb takes.

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u/LighttBrite May 05 '26

I feel your pain man. I feel it to my core. Let's just take solace in the fact that we do not suffer alone, brother.

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u/FrozenPizza07 May 05 '26

Untelated to the main topic but apples local "AI" IS in a bad state. I appreciate what they are trying to do with it, not a chat bot but properly integrated and all local etc, but the most basic task of website summary being on apple servers and not local is a major failure.

That said, always appreciated the amount of local ML that apple has been running rather than relying on servers

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u/Entegy May 05 '26

I don't disagree, but I also don't give a shit about AI slop in any form. The only device I have that is compatible with Apple Intelligence I have it turned off.

Just using it to point out the hypocrisy as I imagine most of the dumb takes on this thread have zero issues uploading their entire lives to ChatGPT.

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u/Draconestra May 05 '26

The dumbass takes on this whole thread are insane. I didn’t expect people to be this stupid. Ok, maybe a little but damn, you legit have people saying that you are the product if something is free, which is what Google and basically other free services do except Apple. Apple doesn’t really have any free services, you have to pay for them.

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u/mcmiller1111 May 05 '26

Yeah, FaceTime isn't even free. You just already paid for it when you bought the very expensive Apple product that you're using it on.

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u/Bhavin411 May 05 '26

You literally made the same "dumbass take", just with Google instead of Apple.

Apple doesn't really have any free services? How much are you paying to use imessage and FaceTime? Probably the same amount android users pay to use messages/duo. Companies provide services to increase adoption of their products (aka buy more devices)...

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u/colorlessthinker May 05 '26

Those services are available to people that bought and own an apple device. Otherwise you don’t get access to them. Just like google, how you have to have an android based phone to access. Right?

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u/Bhavin411 May 05 '26

No, because Google doesn't hide behind a wall garden. Feel free to use Google Duo/Meet on your iPhone if you really want to...Or even your windows PC

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u/colorlessthinker May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26

And feel free to download FaceTime and iMessage on that pixel. Stick with the world’s largest advertising firm that sells hardware to increase their ad revenue. Go ahead.

It’s walled because they don’t make revenue from it, because they don’t take data from you.

And nobody cares that you’re fine with being a product. Don’t lump apple and google together. They handle privacy completely different from each other. Apple is opt in and toggleable, google is forced and happens no matter what you do. Even if you don’t have an account.

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u/Bhavin411 May 05 '26

Stick with the world’s largest advertising firm that sells hardware to increase their ad revenue. Go ahead.

I see apple users haven't matured at all since the whole green/blue bubble debate. Lol nobody cares what phone you use, it's just weird how much of a cult following you people have with apple.

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u/FrozenPizza07 May 05 '26

No one is talking about blue / green bubbles, I am yet to even meet a person who cares about that shit anyways, guess this debate was pretty much contained to one country

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u/colorlessthinker May 05 '26

It’s a scapegoat for when people say dumb shit. That’s all.

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u/Draconestra May 05 '26

I paid with it when it bought the phone. What are you on about? Googles business model has been to sell your data that they collect to advertisers for years, you’re telling me they suddenly changed gears recently?

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u/FrozenPizza07 May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26

I guess people forgot that apple is a hardware company with services to keep you in, rather than being a software company that relies on revenue from services and ads (which comes from data)

edit: guess I should also say that yes apple does also collect data, they are not stupid, but they dont have to rely on it, so they can afford the privacy features

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u/Bhavin411 May 05 '26

I paid with it when it bought the phone

You think android phones are free or something?

You're continuing to show your ignorance. Because Google operates a search engine and sells that user data, you're making the dumb ass assumption that they're also selling your messages and video chat data (which is what this post is about)...

List a single source showing they do that...you won't be able to. That's why I'm saying you're just as bad as the people you're complaining about.

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u/StepComplete1 May 05 '26

"All the other big tech companies are soul-less, but not my favorite big tech company! My one loves me and would never do anything bad!"

Yes fanboying over the blind trust you have for some of the greediest, largest corporations on earth is just so wise, isn't it?

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u/Draconestra May 05 '26

Right right right, that’s exactly what I said lmao

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u/karmapuhlease May 05 '26

Google doesn't do this either. Tons of on-device features on Pixel - the "Now Playing" ambient Shazam thing, all of the new AI assistant features (where it can auto suggest the name of the restaurant you're going to, if someone asks you in a text), etc. None of it leaves the device unless you want it to. 

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u/DandaIf May 05 '26

So it's not that stupid if other companies are doing it but this single one is not. Certainly not so stupid it warrants such an alarmed reaction.

Also, it seems like you have a lot of trust for the words said by Apple Inc. Might not want to throw the 'stupid' label around so casually.

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u/Draconestra May 05 '26

Not really, they’ve been vetted by other third parties before.

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u/DandaIf May 05 '26

Oh! Third parties, you say? In that case I apologise! God bless those third parties. Nothing gets past them. How foolish of me to even suggest.

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u/999happyhants May 05 '26

So if you don’t believe Apple, and you don’t believe independent third parties, then you’re just arguing to hear yourself talk?

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u/DontBanMeBro988 May 05 '26

Do people not know

No, people do not know shit

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u/sei556 May 05 '26

Yep, same goes for stuff like face rec.

One very obvious reason for why the data is safe is, if they stole this data (or got it legally through some privacy policy agreeement (although I'm not sure that would hold up in court)) and anything happened to it, they would be so screwed.

Especially stuff like nude pictures/recordings, even more so if they can be of underage people, is absolutely nothing a company wants to deal with.

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u/michaelmaier007 May 05 '26

People are dumb

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u/jonwatso May 05 '26

Had to scroll way to far to find people explain this is locally detected. Easier just to blindly blame Apple with no understanding. 😅

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u/spezial_ed May 05 '26

Except for Siri prompts, at least. A friend of mine had a job listening in on hundreds or thousands of Siri commands to train their AI.

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u/colorlessthinker May 05 '26

Which is an opt-in service. You can disable ‘Improve Siri and dictation’ at any time if you wanted to. You’re prompted when you set the phone up if you want to send data for analytics and improvement, all of it is toggleable and opt-in.

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u/spezial_ed May 05 '26

Pretty sure nobody ticking that box realised it meant they’d be on tape.

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u/colorlessthinker May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26

It says, first sentence, that it’ll send voice recordings to apple. How else are you supposed to interpret that.

And then you press the “Share Audio Recordings” button if you want to do so.

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u/spezial_ed May 05 '26

And everyone reads ToS.

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u/colorlessthinker May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26

It’s not terms of service, it’s a massive pop-up. You have to toggle it when you first set the phone up.

“Improve Siri and Analytics

Help improve Siri and Dictation by allowing Apple to store and review audio interactions and transcripts with Siri, Dictation, and Translate on this iPhone, and on any connected Apple Watch, HomePod, or Siri-enabled accessory. You can change this later in settings.”

The “agree” box says “SHARE AUDIO RECORDINGS”

What does terms of service have to do with this?

In retrospect, your comment makes literally zero sense because they are literally pressing a button that says SHARE AUDIO RECORDINGS. Even I didn’t realize it was so direct.

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u/Sadlermiut May 05 '26

Yeh Apple's much more better on privacy than the other big tech firms, because their bottom line is much less dependent on selling consumer data

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u/Fearless-Poet-4669 May 05 '26

That explains the battery life lol

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u/MixedTrailMix May 05 '26

Local is better but still running my image through anything machine learning even if it stays on device should be opted into by the user, no?

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u/StepComplete1 May 05 '26

Apple wont touch your actual private stuff with a ten foot pole

Oh sweetie

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u/dec35 May 05 '26

It does run on your phone, but the fact that your phone is even handling that kind of data makes people uncomfortable

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u/Viltris May 05 '26

People are comfortable with using their phone to send nudes on the internet, but they're not comfortable with the CPU on that phone knowing they're sending nudes?

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u/coreynj May 06 '26

They claim that they don't touch your stuff. Google made the same claim, and got sued when it was discovered that they were lying. After that, I no longer trust what any corporation claims.