Archive · 18 Aug 2025
Google Messages Adds Nudity Detection, Blurs Sensitive Images
Google Messages now has a new safety feature to help protect users from seeing bad pictures.
When it finds a picture with nudity, it blurs the image and gives you a warning.
This happens only on your phone, so Google doesn't see your pictures.
If you're a kid, this feature is always on.
Teens can turn it off, but adults have to turn it on themselves.
It makes you think before you share sensitive pictures, and it keeps kids safe.
Google Messages now detects and blurs images containing nudity.
The feature operates entirely on the device, ensuring privacy.
Nude images are blurred with warnings when sending, receiving, or forwarding.
Children with supervised accounts have the feature enabled by default and cannot disable it.
Adults need to manually enable the feature in settings if desired.
- Who
- Users of Google Messages, especially children and teens.
- What
- Google Messages is adding a feature that detects and blurs images containing nudity.
- When
- The feature is newly introduced.
- Where
- In the Google Messages app.
- Why
- To protect users from inappropriate content and promote digital well-being.
- Feature
- Nudity detection and blurring
- Location of Processing
- On-device
- User Groups
- Children, teens, and adults
- Child Supervision
- Managed through Family Link
- Adult Activation
- Manual in settings