Here’s How Apple Is Updating Its Child Safety Features in iOS 27

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Gardner also asked why Apple never removed Grok, which still hosted sexualized deepfakes of celebrities as recently as June, from its App Store.

“When someone points out that these apps are deepfaking teenagers or creating child sexual abuse materials, they sort of quietly remove them from the App Store without making any announcement about it, so their inconsistency in terms of the App Store is really pronounced,” Gardner says.

Apple says nudification apps are against its guidelines, and it has proactively rejected many and removed others, including those which people have flagged through the App Store’s reporting tools. The company did not address why Grok is still available on the platform.

As for whether Apple is still looking into deploying CSAM detection tech, Apple pointed to its Communication Safety feature, which blocks images and videos containing nudity, violent content, or gore in various apps. (It’s turned on automatically for...

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