Back to News
This is an urgent safety alert. Please review and take appropriate action.
App WarningUrgent

Apple’s updated App Store rules go after ‘nudify’ AI apps

The Verge
October 16, 2026(2 days ago)

Apple's App Store rules now more explicitly ban so-called "nudify" apps that generate intimate images of people without their consent using AI tools. The rule changes follow significant criticism toward Apple after X users used Grok earlier this year to make nonconsensual, sexualized deepfakes, incl...

AISummary

Apple has updated its App Store rules to more explicitly ban "nudify" apps that use AI to create fake intimate images of people without permission. The policy change comes after criticism over the Grok AI tool being used to generate nonconsensual sexual deepfakes of minors earlier this year, though Apple has not removed X or Grok from its store.

Apple's App Store rules now more explicitly ban so-called "nudify" apps that generate intimate images of people without their consent using AI tools. The rule changes follow significant criticism toward Apple after X users used Grok earlier this year to make nonconsensual, sexualized deepfakes, including minors . Apple didn't pull X or Grok from the App Store, though it told senators that it threatened to yank Grok . At Apple's WWDC event in June, protestors also called on Apple to "remove Grok,...