Apple has updated its App Store guidelines to explicitly ban apps that create nonconsensual nude or sexualized images, such as AI 'nudify' apps.

What it means

Apple has updated its App Store Review Guidelines to explicitly ban apps that create nonconsensual nude or sexualized images, including AI-powered 'nudify' apps. The update also appears to close loopholes where an app presents itself as doing one thing while actually being used to strip or sexualize photos of real people. This extends Apple's long-standing ban on pornographic content to cover synthetic and deepfake-style imagery.

Accuracy & sourcesGrounded

The claim rests on a named primary source — Apple's updated App Store Review Guidelines — and is reported by multiple reputable outlets (Gizmodo, Engadget, The Verge) in the same window, so the existence of the policy change is solid. The reporting is clearer on the new rule text than on how Apple will enforce it in practice.

How new

This is genuinely new reporting from the Oct 16–18, 2026 publication window, tracking Apple's just-announced guideline update.

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