Apple has yanked popular photo-sharing app 500px for iPhone and iPad from the App Store over “concerns of nude photos,” according to a report by TechCrunch.
The Cupertino, Calif.-based company pulled it from the App Store around 1 a.m. EST on Tuesday. The startup’s COO, Evgeny Tchebotarev, told TechCrunch that Apple doesn’t want children to search and find nude photos unintentionally via the app:
Tchebotarev clarified that 500px does not allow pornography, as it is against the service’s terms and conditions, and the nudes found within the community tend to include an “artistic” nature. The app also depends on users to flag inappropriate images, but it is working on a feature that will auto-identify and tag nude images so they won’t appear in search.
500px told Apple yesterday that it would make any necessary changes to the app to rectify the situation, but Apple apparently couldn’t wait. Tchebotarev said, as retold by TechCrunch, “the changes 500px promised Apple should be done now and are being submitted immediately.”
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Update: An Apple spokesperson supplied The Next Web with the following statement about the removal:
Get the full report at TechCrunch.
