An upcoming iPhone 26 update from Apple includes FaceTime will immediately freeze calls if nudity is detected. Additionally, a variety of new features, which includes significant improvements to Messages, Wallet, and CarPlay, as well as a dramatically redesigned Liquid Glass design.
The revised Communication Safety feature, which was first introduced as part of Apple’s new family safety measures for child accounts, was intended to shield explicit content from being seen during FaceTime talks.
Apple claims that the technology would prevent explicit media from being distributed to children, blur such photos in shared albums, and step in when nudity is identified.
However, the iOS 26 beta seems to apply this safety feature to all FaceTime users, not only kids, according to a report by iDeviceHelp.
During testing, the iPhone technology stops the audio and video feeds on FaceTime and shows a warning when it detects nudity during a call. After that, users can choose to either end the call or resume it.
According to Apple, machine learning is used for all content analysis on the user’s device, guaranteeing that no information is transmitted to Apple’s servers. Even though the goal of this on-device strategy is to protect privacy, some consumers are nevertheless uncomfortable.
Applying this capability to adults, according to critics, would be viewed as overreaching and raise more general issues of internet censorship and surveillance.
Whether the use of this capability by adult users is a bug or a deliberate aspect of iOS 26’s wider deployment is still unknown. Regarding the issue, Apple has not made an official statement.
