If a child attempts to send sexually explicit content, they will be warned and the parents can be told. Parents can enable or disable the system, and any such content received by a child will be blurred. Users who feel they have been mistakenly flagged can appeal.Īpple’s system uses on-device machine learning to scan images in Message sent or received by minors for sexually explicit material, warning parents if such images are identified. Apple has more than a billion users, so that means there’s better than a 1/1,000 chance of someone being incorrectly identified each year. The system isn’t perfect, however. The company says there’s a less than one-in-one-trillion chance of incorrectly flagging an account.
