{"id":393503,"date":"2026-01-27T17:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T17:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/393503\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T17:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T17:32:11","slug":"dozens-of-nudify-apps-found-on-google-and-apples-app-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/393503\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens of nudify apps found on Google and Apple\u2019s app stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Removing or restricting access to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/859715\/x-grok-ai-deepfakes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grok\u2019s AI image editor<\/a> might not be enough to stop the flood of nonconsensual sexualized images being generated by AI. A report from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techtransparencyproject.org\/articles\/nudify-apps-widely-available-in-apple-and-google-app-stores\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tech Transparency Project (TTP)<\/a> released on Tuesday found dozens of AI \u201cnudify\u201d apps similar to Grok on Google and Apple\u2019s platforms, as previously reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/01\/27\/apple-google-host-dozens-of-ai-nudify-apps-like-grok-report-finds.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CNBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">TTP identified 55 apps on the Google Play Store and 48 on Apple\u2019s App Store that can \u201cdigitally remove the clothes from women and render them completely or partially naked or clad in a bikini or other minimal clothing.\u201d These apps were downloaded over 705 million times worldwide, generating $117 million in revenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">According to CNBC, Google has suspended \u201cseveral\u201d of the apps TTP spotted and Apple has removed 28 of them (two of which were later restored). This is not the first report on AI nudify apps slipping through the cracks \u2014 Apple and Google had to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/4\/26\/24141409\/apple-removes-three-apps-that-advertised-the-ability-to-create-nonconsensual-nude-images\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">respond to a similar report from 404 Media<\/a> in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Apple and Google have addressed the apps in TTP\u2019s report, but X and Grok remain freely available on both companies\u2019 app stores. As The Verge\u2019s Elizabeth Lopatto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/policy\/859902\/apple-google-run-by-cowards\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has pointed out<\/a>, Apple and Google were quick to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/791170\/iceblock-app-store-removed-by-apple\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">remove the ICEBlock app<\/a>, \u201cwhile allowing X to generate degrading images of a woman ICE killed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Removing or restricting access to Grok\u2019s AI image editor might not be enough to stop the flood of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[554,2306,50,86,56,54,55,7540],"class_list":{"0":"post-393503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-mobile","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom","15":"tag-xai"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}