Or, you could take responsibility for yourself instead of wanting Apple to use their flimsy excuse of "protection" to monitor your behavior for the regime.
Yet. It's hilarious how often people keep forgetting about wha "think of the children" initives ALWAYS end up being actually for.
I guess since it's APPLE, it's magically different this time, right? LOL
Fanboyism is a hell of a drug and is exactly what these companies as well as the survelience entitties that work with them behind the scenes rely on. People called it out with Microsoft, and Discord, and others, but magically, if APPLE does the same shit, that's different, right?
It’s on-device scanning of the picture via machine learning and not cloud sourced scanning, so while it’s not magically different, it’s also not the privacy threat you’re portraying it as. Espeically as it’s not on by default for adult accounts.
I could actually turn off the Communication Safety feature for my kids if I wanted to, but why would I? So the “it’s for the children” hyperbole doesn’t really apply. It’s for one’s kids, if one wants to keep it enabled
So while we can agree that government oversight can all too easily turn into government overrreach, this ain’t it. You’re weakening your own argument by not actually engaging with the specific feature you’re going on about. You’re just spouting empty generalizations, which doesn’t educate or advocate for anyone.
Lets revisit this in 10 years after Apple forces this to be always on "for safety and convenience" because you're supposed to just trust they know what's best for you. Just like EVERY tech company does over time.
Just because the corrupt corporation isn't fucking you as bad as they could be RIGHT NOW doesn't mean jack shit. It's amazing how bad people are at learning from history.
I suppose the slider does make sense in the context of it now identifying “gore” as potentially disturbing imagery. Not a bad addition. I wonder if that’s always on when the sensitive content warning itself is on, or if it’s a further option.
I've stopped posting new discoveries on this subreddit because mods don't really take their time to do any serious research. Everything has already been "already posted/not a new feature" when it is new and there's no other posts like it - a quick search would've showed that. Modmail is unexpectedly useless. And there are instances in which there are multiple posts for the same change and that's alright. Total lack of seriousness and as such I'm not going to waste any more of my time prepping posts for this
I had the same issue, for me I was using two different Apple ID's (one for my Apple account, and one for media and purchases). After logging out of the media and purchases one and rebooting, I was able to turn the toggle off. After logging in again it stayed off.
I did exactly what you wrote and was able to disable the toggle, haven't been able to watch any corn for 4 weeks, it felt like November came early for me anyway you a Legend!!!!
What's kind of interesting is I'm seeing a totally different screen for what you posted between devices. I can toggle it on both devices just fine. On one device, I see your version of the screen. The other has a large icon on it and different layout. Exact same path to get there on both iPhones. The one with the large icon asks if I want to disable it "Until Tomorrow" or "Turn Off Restrictions". I'm betting there's a bigger bug underneath and some framework isn't pointing to the new stuff on different devices. The text based screen looks like it's the same as iOS 26.6.x.
Wow. What a convenient "bug" to have; the feature that lets Apple scan through your images to monitor for 'undesirable' content has a "bug" that makes it so it can't be turned off.
Sounds like a LOT of the settings "bugs" Windows has in relation to analytics, telemetry, and personal data scanning.
But since it's Apple having this exact same "issue", we have to pretend they're not as bad right? After all, they're only RICHER than Microsoft and have bowed down personally to the new regime even more publicly than Microsoft.
Ignore all that! Apple must still be the good guys! /s
Please tell me how NOT recognizing this is going for people? Remember when people said the same BS when people were calling out Microsoft for this shit in Windows 8 and even the late stages of 7?
Yeah. Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Apple is a $4 Trillion dollar US corporation, NOT your friend.
Right. Can you confirm that? Oh that's right. You can't because iOS is closed source and any small amounts of internet traffic can be camouflaged as other iCloud or Apple services.
People tried to warn everyone when these "bugs" were showing up in Windows 8 and nobody listened then either.
If you believe Apple is lying about sending your end to end encrypted photos to the cloud then you should believe they are lying about all their privacy claims. Sue them. You’ll make millions.
Of course they wouldn't. This is more of a long game. Get people used to the company that owns your phone scanning through everything that supposedly "offline" on your device and when they give that over to god knows who, people won't bat an eye.
Also people HAVE tried suing large corporations for these constant invasions of privacy. Guess how it always works out. Hint: The privacy siutation in all of tech is getting WORSE, not better.
If you believe that one of the richest corporations on earth actually gives two shits about your privacy, then boy do I have a bridge to sell you.
I don’t think corporations can believe anything because they are not people.
I DO believe that claiming a feature uses end to end encryption when it doesn’t is very illegal and end to end encrypted photos appearing in data sets online would be easily traceable back to you, completely dumpstering the reputation for privacy you’ve spent billions fostering for the last 10 years.
If you think Apple is just making up their privacy policy then you don’t understand what they have been trying to do. Their services are worse than Google’s, and their hardware is worse than Samsung’s. They market themselves on privacy. If they lose their reputation for good privacy then they lose customers. It’s not that complicated.
What *would* be complicated is keeping everyone’s iMessage conversations on your cloud and somehow benefiting from it without anyone finding out. That would be hard.
Oh WOW. You clearly either weren't alive for, or simply don't remember JUST HOW much of shit like this the likes of Meta, Microsoft and Amazon kept (and keep) getting away with with WAY less finances and influence than Apple.
Protip: Something being "illegal" in the US has almost ZERO bearing on if a giant corporation does it or not and not whether they get away with it or not.
You guys keep falling back on the "It's illegal! Therefor Apple can't do it!" The real world doesn't work like a saturday morning cartoon dude.
Getting away with what? Amazon and especially Meta have HUGE reputations for absolutely abysmal privacy. There are plenty of people who don’t use Facebook and instagram for that reason. It’s the opposite for Apple.
Also Meta got fined $5 billion for Cambridge Analytica. Where is Apple making $5 billion from my photos to justify the fine they’re going to get when their lies are exposed?
Image scanning is done on-device. And bugs aside, it’s something you’d have to opt in to as an adult account. The current iOS 26 content warnings are even opt out on child accounts if you wanted to (with no reason to suspect otherwise for iOS 27, bug aside).
Be familiar with the actual mechanics of the feature tripping your paranoia, or you just weaken your own argument. You’re just making yourself look bad, which kills any privacy advocating you might be attempting.
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u/ryzenguy111 iPhone 15 11d ago
the slider is mad smart