iPhone 3.0 Parental Controls Now Allows for Explicit Content on App Store

[MacRumors]

We reported back in May that Apple might loosen the App Store content restrictions once the iPhone 3.0 software became available. iPhone 3.0 offers parental controls which allows you to set what level of content is permissible in your iPhone's Movies, TV Shows, Music and Apps.

Macenstein playfully reports "And then there was porn" pointing out Hottest Girls as the first iPhone App to have nudity.

“We uploaded nude topless pics today. This is the first app to have nudity,” writes Hottest Girls’ developer Allen Leung.

The App does carry a 17+ Rating for "Frequent/Intense Sexual Content or Nudity" and "Frequent/Intense Mature/Suggestive Themes".

Parental restrictions can be turned on in Settings -> General -> Restrictions in your iPhone. If an App falls outside of the allowed rating they will simply disappear of your homepage. Once you turn the restrictions off again, the affected apps reappear. This system would have avoided the issue with NiN's app rejection in May. NiN's app was eventually accepted.

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[hefeglass]

YES...pocket girlfriend!!11133`!



...i feel like i should post that this was sarcasm...for those of you without a sarcasm detector

[trunksu]

the big question is how many parents are actually aware

1. there are parental controls
2. that there is pr0n at the app store


i'm guessing majority don't have a clue about it

[Pugpuppydude]

Ewww... This will be gross.

"iPorn takes the world by the millions!"

[Telp]

WHAT?!?! I HAVE TO PAY FOR THIS?!

[fleshman03]

Originally Posted by Telp

WHAT?!?! I HAVE TO PAY FOR THIS?!

Who pays for porn?

Safari is good enough for me...

Although flash would be nice..........

[macfan881]

Originally Posted by Pugpuppydude

Ewww... This will be gross.

"iPorn takes the world by the millions!"

i still think apple will take a strong stance against porn but i think this will be good for apps like southpark and other stuff

or not ...

[iphones4evry1]

I wonder if the App icon says "Porn" on it, or whether it says "Notepad" or something to disguise it. I don't think many people would want an App where the icon says "Hardcore Sex" on their homepage. Maybe it should have a security code in the App also (like Safe Note does). I HOPE Apple is creating a separate section in the App store, titled "adult" and that iTunes can disable that section with parental controls. I'm sure there is a huge demand (no one is going to admit it) for real, quality porn on the iPhone (instead of the crap that is in the App store right now), but I think EVERYONE is going to want it to be hidden on their phones.

Heck, I think there would already be a HUGE market right now for an App that has a hidden photo album, porn or not or just from your camera, that is password protected (like Safe Note). In fact, the "photos" App that comes on the iPhone should allow a separate, password-protected folder, where the user can drag and drop photos from the normal camera folder into it.

[everettmarshall]

Originally Posted by iphones4evry1

...I HOPE Apple is creating a separate section in the App store, titled "adult" and that iTunes can disable that section with parental controls.

If apple has an "adult" section of anything, they will do great damage to themselves. No one will be attracted to Apple products if they have adult titles, but many will be repelled.

And porn apps for sale mean that Apple IS in the porn business to the tune of a 30% take.

[iphones4evry1]

BLACKBERRY DOESN'T HAVE THIS !!!!!!!!!!!!! Hahaha!

[MacFly123]

Originally Posted by macfan881

i still think apple will take a strong stance against porn but i think this will be good for apps like southpark and other stuff

or not ...

I hope so! Can we have anything in this world that is not tainted with filth anymore???

[rdowns]

Banned by Apple: 'Hottest Girls' Latest App to Get Rejected

The tech community couldn't believe it when it appeared that Apple had approved a salacious iPhone application offering up photos of nude women.


"Hottest Girls," an iPhone application that shows photos of nude woman had been approved by Apple's App Store but is now not available in the U.S.
(ABC News Photo Illustration)
Macenstein, a blog on all things Apple, wrote, "Today, the iTunes app store became a man." The tech site CNET took another tack: "Apple goes topless," it declared.

But it looks as if Apple's affair with X-rated content wasn't meant to last.

Developer Allen Leung had proudly told Macenstein, "We uploaded nude topless pics today. This is the first app to have nudity."

Leunge may have made one boast too many. The application, "Hottest Girls," was available Wednesday to users of the iPhone and iPod Touch, but has since been pulled from the store. "Apple will not distribute applications that contain inappropriate content, such as pornography," Apple spokesman Tom Neumayr said. "The developer of this application added inappropriate content directly from their server after the application had been approved and distributed, and after the developer had subsequently been asked to remove some offensive content.

"This was a direct violation of the terms of the iPhone Developer Program. The application is no longer available on the App Store."

[Macman1993]

So wait if I am getting this right he had a page that linked to a gallery that was on his server and then after it got in he changed the pix in the gallery with porn dumbass for thinking apple would be ok with this. Good job apple.

[Pugpuppydude]

Originally Posted by trunksu

the big question is how many parents are actually aware

1. there are parental controls
2. that there is pr0n at the app store


i'm guessing majority don't have a clue about it

So true. Alot of parents will really have no idea about this.. Unless this hits the news (which I'm guessing it will) as the iPhone/ iPod touch being a mobile porn device. This could hurt the image of the iPhone alot.

[Michael Belisle]

Originally Posted by Pugpuppydude

So true. Alot of parents will really have no idea about this.. Unless this hits the news (which I'm guessing it will) as the iPhone/ iPod touch being a mobile porn device. This could hurt the image of the iPhone alot.

Yeah, 17+ programs should probably be hidden in the store by default.

[Akira1980]

Originally Posted by Pugpuppydude

So true. Alot of parents will really have no idea about this.. Unless this hits the news (which I'm guessing it will) as the iPhone/ iPod touch being a mobile porn device. This could hurt the image of the iPhone alot.

And the sale of iPhone/iPod Touch will go through the roof. LOL

[MrSmith]

Originally Posted by Akira1980

And the sale of iPhone/iPod Touch will go through the roof. LOL

In America they dive...

[GrannySmith_G5]

Nudity on the iPhone? Sex on the iPhone? Boy I hope this is locked deep in the bowels of the OS so Little Billy from Wisconsin doesn't accidentally stumble upon it, and gasp - - - maybe even masturbate to it! Could you imagine! The life he would inevitably lead after being exposed to such hormonal filth at such a young age. It almost makes me sick to think that everyone on this planet is the product of this grown up thing we call sex.

[iphones4evry1]

Originally Posted by Pugpuppydude

So true. Alot of parents will really have no idea about this.. Unless this hits the news (which I'm guessing it will) as the iPhone/ iPod touch being a mobile porn device. This could hurt the image of the iPhone alot.

I'm sure most parents and television newscasters already realize that anyone can use the Safari browser to access adult content.

Originally Posted by Michael Belisle

Yeah, 17+ programs should probably be hidden in the store by default.

I agree.

Originally Posted by everettmarshall

If apple has an "adult" section of anything, they will do great damage to themselves. No one will be attracted to Apple products if they have adult titles, but many will be repelled.

And porn apps for sale mean that Apple IS in the porn business to the tune of a 30% take.

I see what you are saying. I agree. I suppose they should just add parental controls to iTunes but not create a separate section. That makes sense. My ideal scenario would be that Apple ban porn sales but instead create a separate password-protected photo/image folder on the iPhone and allow users to load the content they choose from their own computers or camera. This would allow them to ban porn but not have people cry "censorship" because they can say "we gave you a folder. you can put whatever you want in it."

[winterspan]

Originally Posted by Pugpuppydude

So true. Alot of parents will really have no idea about this.. Unless this hits the news (which I'm guessing it will) as the iPhone/ iPod touch being a mobile porn device. This could hurt the image of the iPhone alot.

first of all, this is not porn. It displays topless woman.. Only in America, the land of Christian zealots would this be called porn. As to the issue, parents need to be involved in their childrens' lives. They cannot expect Apple and the government to raise their children.

Additionally, obviously there is extreme content available on the internet that is unhealthy for ANYONE, but "normal" sexual content shouldn't be a big deal. I was raised with an unfilitered internet connection, and looked at all kinds of porn with my friends, mostly as a joke. I didn't grow up into some weird deviant...

[Torajima]

Originally Posted by winterspan

first of all, this is not porn. It displays topless woman.. Only in America, the land of Christian zealots would this be called porn.

Oh, you can't just blame the religious right. The extreme left is anti-nudity too, as it supposedly "objectifies women".

[mc3s]

What happened:

Now with the new parental controls, explicit content can be added to the app store. It was already available in the music and video store. One app went from bikini clad women to topless women.

What some people think happened:

Pornography has started to take over the app store and it will be almost impossible to find anything else there. Also, will someone please think of the children?


Typical Macrumors.

[Master Atrus]

So here is my two cents ... I don't have a problem with nudity or whatever, but I do have a problem if I start looking at the top 25 paid aps and 20 of them a adult related.

If Apple wants to allow this, fine, whatever, but it needs to be in its own section and not be part of the "featured" or "top 25 / 50s"

[iphones4evry1]

Originally Posted by Master Atrus

So here is my two cents ... I don't have a problem with nudity or whatever, but I do have a problem if I start looking at the top 25 paid aps and 20 of them a adult related.

If Apple wants to allow this, fine, whatever, but it needs to be in its own section and not be part of the "featured" or "top 25 / 50s"

What about the "Staff Recommended" section. Haha.

[GrannySmith_G5]

Originally Posted by Master Atrus

So here is my two cents ... I don't have a problem with nudity or whatever, but I do have a problem if I start looking at the top 25 paid aps and 20 of them a adult related.

If Apple wants to allow this, fine, whatever, but it needs to be in its own section and not be part of the "featured" or "top 25 / 50s"

Obviously it won't be. Could you imagine if it was? Probably not going to happen. The chances of seeing the top 50 iphone apps all being something along the lines of "iPublicBoobies" seems a bit weird. No? So, yeah, probably not gonna happen.