About Sensitive Content Warning on Apple devices
Choose to receive warnings about photos or videos that might contain nudity before viewing them, as well as resources to help you make a safe choice.
Sensitive Content Warning helps you avoid receiving unwanted nude photos or videos on your Apple device.
Photos or videos that might contain nudity are blurred before you view them.
You can also find guidance and resources that help you make a choice that you're comfortable with.
Sensitive Content Warning uses on-device machine learning to analyze photos and videos. Because they're analyzed on your device, Apple doesn't receive an indication that nudity was detected and does not get access to the photos or videos as a result.
Sensitive Content Warning requires iOS 17 or later, iPadOS 17 or later, watchOS 10 or later, and macOS Sonoma or later. For a complete set of protections, update your devices to the latest software.
Turn on Sensitive Content Warning
Sensitive Content Warning is turned off by default. After you turn on Sensitive Content Warning, you can choose which apps and services you'd like to use it with.
How to turn on Sensitive Content Warning on iPhone or iPad
In Settings, tap Privacy & Security.
Scroll down and tap Sensitive Content Warning.
Turn on Sensitive Content Warning.
All supported apps and services are turned on automatically. If you choose, you can turn access off for some apps and services.
When you turn on Sensitive Content Warning on your iPhone, it's also turned on for your paired Apple Watch.
How to turn on Sensitive Content Warning on Mac
Choose the Apple menu > System Settings.
From the sidebar, select Privacy & Security.
Scroll down and select Sensitive Content Warning.
Turn on Sensitive Content Warning.
All supported apps and services are turned on automatically. If you choose, you can turn access off for some apps and services.
If Sensitive Content Warning detects a photo or video that appears to contain nudity
Sensitive Content Warning can detect nude photos and videos in these apps and services:
iPhone or iPad: Messages, AirDrop, Contact Posters in the Phone app and the Contacts app, and FaceTime Video Messages
Mac: Messages
Apple Watch: Messages, Contact Posters in the Phone app and the Contacts app, and FaceTime video messages.
If Sensitive Content Warning determines that you've received a photo or video that appears to contain nudity, it blurs the image, displays a warning that the content appears to be sensitive, and offers ways to get help.
If you decide to view the photo or video, tap Show.
If you are unsure or need help, tap the Alert button
to find resources or block the person who sent the sensitive content.
About Communication Safety on your child's Apple device
To help protect your child from viewing or sharing sensitive photos or videos, you can turn on Communication Safety so that your child's device detects photos and videos that might contain nudity.
Learn more about Communication Safety
