Of all the problems Apple must have foreseen during the launch week of a new iPhone, hardcore porn GIFs probably wasn’t at the top of the list. Earlier today, we shared a disturbing Deadspin report about a graphic, sexual My Little Pony GIFs appearing in the new iMessage GIF search for the word “butt.”
Unsurprisingly, this wasn’t the only inappropriate image to slip through the cracks. Hours later, a woman wrote in to The Verge to let them know that her eight-year-old child searched for the word “huge” and was greeted by “a very explicit image” of “a woman giving oral sex to a well endowed male.”
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As The Verge notes, Apple filtered out explicit searches before iOS 10 launched, but it hasn’t taken long for some users to (accidentally) find ways around the filter by searching for seemingly innocent phrases in iMessage.
The searches for “butt” and “huge” have since been disabled altogether, but iOS 10 only launched a day ago. There’s no telling what else iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users will find as they continue to scroll through GIF search.
Apple has yet to release a statement regarding the issue of sexual GIFs, but if this keeps up, the company might have no choice but to disable the feature until it can find a better way to filter search results. In the meantime, make sure to keep one eye closed when you search for a GIF. And keep your phone away from your kids.
