The Sensitive Content Warning in iOS 17 is intended to keep you from seeing something you can’t undo. If you receive photographs featuring nudity, Apple will obscure the contents and notify you. With the imminent release of iOS 17.2, this feature is becoming increasingly widespread.
The Sensitive Content Warning previously only applied to AirDrop, Contacts, Messages, and FaceTime Video Messages. It was also included in Mac Messages and Apple Watch Messages and Contact Posters. This was a nice beginning point, but Apple apparently felt it wasn’t enough – and we tend to agree.
So, where are the Sensitive Contact Warnings in iOS 17.2? The filter is now available for Messages stickers and Contact Posters in the Contacts app. Both of these are methods that people could use to send photographs with nudity.
The Sensitive information Warning can now recognise explicit information and obscure it before it stains your memories permanently, thanks to the update.
However, iOS 17.2 is now only available to beta testers. If you wish to try out the improved nudity-filter, you must first install the iOS 17 public beta on your iPhone. If that isn’t an option for you, you’ll have to wait until the public version of the software is released later this year.
You’ll also need to go into settings and enable the Sensitive Content Warning, which is disabled by default. To summarise, navigate to Settings > Privacy & Security and seek for the Sensitive Content Warning option. We have a more extensive instruction on how to get everything up and running, and it is easy enough that it only takes a few minutes.
That way, you can keep unwelcome nudity off your phone and, more importantly, out of your thoughts.
