- Update: After TTP informed Apple and Google of the dozens of “nudify” apps in their stores, both companies removed many of them. Apple took down 27, Google 31. But the swift takedown—and tacit admission the apps broke store rules—raises serious questions about their approval processes.Jan 29, 2026 22:03
- Writing about this “moral low ground,” @malcolmowen.bsky.social points out that "The failure doesn't just stop at the developer, either, as the apps had to pass the App Store Review Process and be approved before being allowed in the App Store in the first place."
- Both Apple and Google emphasize user safety as a key pillar of their review processes. But their repeated failure to reject “nudify” apps—before they were downloaded millions of times—harms not just users, but an unknown number of victims who have had their image sexualized.
