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.

Check for sensitive photos and videos

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.

How Sensitive Content Warning protects your privacy

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.

Where Sensitive Content Warning detects sensitive photos and videos

On iPhone or iPad: Messages, AirDrop, shared photo albums, Contact Posters in the Phone app and the Contacts app, and FaceTime calls and video messages
On Mac: Messages, Contact Posters in the Phone app and the Contacts app, and shared photo albums.
On Apple Watch: Messages, Contact Posters in the Phone app and the Contacts app, and FaceTime video messages.
On Apple Vision Pro: Messages, AirDrop

Requirements

Sensitive Content Warning requires iOS 17 or later, iPadOS 17 or later, watchOS 10 or later, macOS Sonoma or later, or visionOS 2 or later.
For a complete set of protections, update your devices to the latest software version.

Turn on Sensitive Content Warning

In Settings (or System Settings on Mac), select Privacy & Security.
Scroll down and select Sensitive Content Warning.

Turn on Sensitive Content Warning.

When you turn on Sensitive Content Warning, it's turned on automatically for all supported apps, but you can choose manage access for each app. When you turn on Sensitive Content Warning on your iPhone, it's also turned on for your paired Apple Watch.

What happens when sensitive content is detected

If Sensitive Content Warning detects that a photo or video appears to contain nudity, the content is blurred and a warning is displayed. From this alert, you have several options:

When Sensitive Content Warning detects that an image or video might contain nudity, it blurs the message before you view it.

To view the content: Select Show.
To find help: Select the Alert button to find safety resources or block the person.

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.