https://9to5mac.com/2025/07/02/facetime-in-ios-26-will-freeze-your-call-if-someone-starts-undressing/ Skip to main content Toggle main menu Go to the 9to5Mac home page Switch site * 9to5Toys * 9to5Google * Electrek * DroneDJ * Space Explored * About * Privacy * * * * * * * * * * * Toggle social menu * * * Toggle dark mode Search for: [ ] Submit Toggle search form * Exclusives * Store * Podcasts + Apple@Work + Happy Hour + 9to5Mac Daily + Runtime * Vision + Vision Pro + visionOS + Hands-on * iPhone + iPhone + iPhone 14 + iPhone 15 + iPhone 16 + iOS 18 * Mac + Mac + MacBook Pro + MacBook Air + iMac + Mac mini + Mac Studio + Mac Pro + macOS Sequoia * Watch + Apple Watch + Apple Watch Ultra + Apple Watch Ultra 2 + Apple Watch Series 10 + Apple Health + Apple Watch SE + watchOS 11 * iPad + iPad Pro + iPad Air + iPad mini + iPad + iPadOS + iPadOS 18 * Music and TV + Apple Music + AirPods + HomePod + Apple TV + tvOS 18 * Guides + Reviews + How Tos + AAPL + Apple Store + Apple Arcade + Apple Card + Apple Silicon + Apple One + Apple Fitness+ + CarPlay + Siri + HomeKit * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Toggle dark mode * FaceTime * iOS 26 FaceTime in iOS 26 will freeze your call if someone starts undressing Avatar for Ryan Christoffel Ryan Christoffel | Jul 2 2025 - 12:58 pm PT 13 Comments [facetime-ios-26-fi] iOS 26 is a packed update for iPhone users thanks to the new Liquid Glass design and major updates for Messages, Wallet, CarPlay, and more. But another new feature was just discovered in the iOS 26 beta: FaceTime will now freeze your call's video and audio if someone starts undressing. New FaceTime safety feature for child accounts in iOS 26 seems to apply to adults too When Apple unveiled iOS 26 last month, it mentioned a variety of new family tools coming for child accounts. One of those announcements involved a change coming to FaceTime to block nudity. Communication Safety expands to intervene when nudity is detected in FaceTime video calls, and to blur out nudity in Shared Albums in Photos. However, at least in the iOS 26 beta, it seems that a similar feature may be in place for all users--adults included. As discovered by iDeviceHelp on X, FaceTime in iOS 26 freezes your call's video and audio when it detects nudity. The app will then show the following warning message: [facetime-warning-ios-26] As you can see, FaceTime provides the option of immediately resuming audio and video, or ending the call. It's unclear whether this is an intended behavior, or just a bug in the beta that's applying the feature to adults when it should only apply to child accounts. While this feature might raise privacy concerns for some, here's how Apple's existing Communication Safety features work: 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 analyzed 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. In other words, everything happens on-device so Apple has no idea about the contents of your call. We'll keep you posted with any discoveries or new information we learn related to the FaceTime feature in iOS 26. 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For two years he co-hosted the Adapt podcast on Relay FM, which focused entirely on the iPad. As a result, it should come as no surprise that his favorite Apple device is the iPad Pro.