Apple’s iMessage Scanning Flagged a Video of My Friend's Dog as Nudity
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Apple<br>Apple’s iMessage Scanning Flagged a Video of My Friend's Dog as Nudity
Joseph Cox
Jul 28, 2026<br>at 10:06 AM
Apple’s Sensitive Content Warning is supposed to protect users from unwanted nude images. It accidentally blurred my friend’s dog video.
Photo by Alvan Nee on Unsplash
In a video my friend’s dog is laying on her back, her little paws in the air, while my friend rubs the dog’s chest. You can see most of the dog — who I’m not naming for very important privacy reasons — from her head to her belly. On closer inspection, you’ll notice the picture includes some dog nipples.<br>Apple’s iMessage thought this video was so inappropriate that it flagged the video as potentially containing nudity and blurred it. When someone else received the video over iMessage, the app displayed the message “This may be sensitive.” They had to purposefully tap to reveal the video of a dog laying on her back being petted.
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