People having phone sex on FaceTime will now get a warning from Apple

The lighting is low, the expectation high, and your partner starts unbuttoning their shirt.

Suddenly, you see the FaceTime video freeze, and a black message fills the screen.

‘Audio and video are paused because you may be showing something sensitive,’ your phone informs you.

‘If you feel uncomfortable, you should end the call.’

Kind of a buzz kill? This could be what awaits iPhone users in the next software update, which is reported to include it as a security feature.

The feature was first spotted by iDeviceHelp, who wrote on X: ‘In iOS 26 FaceTime will pause the Video if you’re undressing while on a FaceTime call here’s the on screen prompt warning that you get asking if you would like to resume audio and video or End the call’.

It’s not clear if this is a glitch, intended only for accounts used by children, or if it is intended to be rolled out to everyone.

The developer beta version is reportedly showing this to any users who strip off, even those well into middle age.

If you go to the settings for FaceTime, there is an option to toggle Sensitive Content Warning on or off.

It is off by default, indicating that it may not actually come to everyone’s phones, or at least that you’ll have an option to turn it off.

Apple has not yet commented on it.

Does this mean Apple is spying on my sexy phone calls?

Not quite. Images are analysed locally on the phone, with nothing transmitted to Apple’s servers.

According to the company, ‘Communication Safety uses on-device machine learning to analyze photo and video attachments and determine if a photo or video appears to contain nudity.

‘Because the photos and videos are analysed on your child’s device, Apple doesn’t receive an indication that nudity was detected and doesn’t get access to the photos or videos as a result.’

Earlier this year, Apple announced new tools to protect young users.

They include children now having to send requests to their parents when they want to communicate with new phone numbers.

It also says ‘communication Safety expands to intervene when nudity is detected in FaceTime video calls, and to blur out nudity in Shared Albums in Photos’.

Apple is expected to release the new iOS 26 in September.

It skipped ahead from the current iOS 18.5 to unify operating systems across all its products, including Mac and Apple Watch, with 26 referring to the calendar year it will primarily be used in.

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