Apple Pulls 500px Apps Over Nude Photos

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Posted January 22, 2013 at 11:02pm by iClarified

Apple has pulled the 500px photography apps from the App Store due to concerns about nude photos, according to a TechCrunch. COO Evgeny Tchebotarev told the site that combined the iPhone and iPad apps have already seen over 1 million downloads.

The Apple reviewer told the company that the update couldn’t be approved because it allowed users to search for nude photos in the app. This is correct to some extent, but 500px had actually made it tough to do so, explains Tchebotarev. New users couldn’t just launch the app and locate the nude images, he says, the way you can today on other social photo-sharing services like Instagram or Tumblr, for instance. Instead, the app defaulted to a “safe search” mode where these types of photos were hidden. To shut off safe search, 500px actually required its users to visit their desktop website and make an explicit change.

500px told Apple that it would make some changes to address the issue within a day; however, Apple decided to pull the apps anyways. The app had been in the App Store for 16 months before Apple took issue with it and does not allow pornographic images only artistic nudes.

Tchebotarev says the changes promised to Apple should be done now and are being submitted immediately.

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NoGoodNick - January 24, 2013 at 4:29pm

This means that NO photo sharing site is safe, because there's no way they can possibly monitor every single photo uploaded to their site. 500 is an excellent site, and it has MUCH less 'explicit' shots than does Flickr, but the various Flickr related apps have never been banned. Just glad I had to foresight to download it BEFORE they looked at it!

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zafro - January 24, 2013 at 4:14pm

its good work apple....becaz why we are like Apples...! keep it up...100%

Tamas - January 24, 2013 at 10:05am

WTF? Following this logic Apple should remove all browsers/disable the internet too. This is just sick....

bla - January 23, 2013 at 7:25pm

I came to this news item expecting to see nude photos....I leave dissapointed

F4ID - January 23, 2013 at 12:15pm

wtf? then why do we need age restrictions for? sometimes apple really suck :/

DNA64 - January 23, 2013 at 2:18am

And yet Tumblr hasn't been removed? Please! I can search for nudes using Google and many other apps. :P

Bugerbuster - January 23, 2013 at 12:48am

Lol, you chnaged your name from NoGoodNick to the newer one after you got harrased by those impersonators, good thinking, but you cannot hide forever, get out of the fantsay you dreamin of ...

NoGoodNick - January 24, 2013 at 4:33pm

Hey, "her" use of the NoGoodNick name were impersonations as well, as I've got NO relationship to the anti-Apple BS being posted under my name. The problem is with iClarified. They ask for valid emails before allowing postings, but allow you to claim to be anyone you like. It's THAT policy that need to be changed, as it's being misused to spread useless junk posts that run counter to the site's pricipals.

Dribble - January 22, 2013 at 11:22pm

I suppose all web browsers will also be pulled from the App Store. I've heard you can search for pictures of naked people through those too.

ShadowOne - January 23, 2013 at 12:25am

They should pull their Safari browser first.

aa2007 - January 23, 2013 at 2:15am

Well Safari browser is rated as 17+ app. So a kid can't find it in app store or run it if it's already installed if the iDevice has parental controls on it. On the other hand, 500px was rated for ages 4+. A bit of a lie there by the developers. I'm not sure why Apple didn't just changed the rating of the app instead of removing it. Maybe because of the lie and abuse the developer caused to millions.