These apps generate revenue, which may be why the companies have been less than vigilant in removing them. As stories of sexual deepfakes targeting women and girls accumulate, the role Apple & Google play in this ecosystem may soon attract more scrutiny.
These findings show that Apple and Google are not passive platforms when it comes to nudify and undressing apps. Their search and advertising systems are actively elevating and promoting these apps, which can create nonconsensual nude images or porn videos using AI.
Many of these nudify apps were rated suitable for minors, a notable finding given the growing number of sexual deepfake scandals in schools.
TTP also recorded the autocomplete search suggestions that Apple and Google made as we typed in the different search terms. In many cases, the app stores recommended entirely new search queries that led to more nudify apps.
Two of TTP’s searches in the Google Play Store produced a “Suggested for You” carousel of sponsored apps mid-way through the top ten results. This is one of the advertised apps.
Apple and Google ran ads for nudify and undressing apps in some of the search results. Here are some that popped up in the Apple App Store.
Other preset companion bots in the app looked like pre-teen or teen girls.
Several of the apps that came up in search results offered AI companion chatbots. One app offered preset bots, including a woman in a black leather corset and horns named “Seraphine” and a woman in a silver mini-dress named “Naomi.”
Another app that came up in an App Store search for “undress” would strip the clothes off a woman in a photo. The app required payment to deblur the resulting image, but a thumbnail showed the woman naked.
This app, which came up in an Apple App Store search for “nudify,” would remove a woman's top in response to a prompt. (To test the apps, TTP used AI-generated photos of fake women.)
Searches for terms like "nudify," "undress," and "deepnude" in the app stores produced multiple apps capable of digitally stripping the clothes off women in photos.
In January, TTP revealed that the Apple and Google app stores each hosted dozens of nudify and undressing apps. Our new report found that the app stores’ search and advertising systems actually point users to these kinds of apps.
NEW: Apple and Google ban “nudify” apps, but a new TTP report shows that their app stores direct users to them.
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Scams on Meta platforms aren’t going away. AARP’s bulletin offers guidance on how to avoid scams like these.
Until big tech is held accountable for its profitable role in the scam economy, users should be wary of trusting ads on platforms like Facebook. www.aarp.org/money/scams-...
Although Facebook claimed after TTP’s report that it has reduced scams significantly, Katie points out that TTP has encountered both “new advertisers from the same scam networks” and “new pages running identical ads.”
Because Facebook’s ad systems are designed to feed ads to the people it believes would be most likely to interact with them, Katie noted that “If you pause too long or click on one, the platform sends you more and more [scam ads].”
“While Meta rakes in advertising profits, it’s letting deepfake scams target [older people] and their bank accounts,” TTP director Katie Paul told AARP. www.aarp.org/money/scams-...
TTP’s October 2025 report found nearly $50 million in Meta scam ads, including some using deepfake videos of President Trump, Senator Elizabeth Warren, and other political figures to hawk fake government benefits to seniors. www.techtransparencyproject.org/articles/met...
NEW: @aarp.org bulletin digs into the danger of online scams that are increasingly made worse by the growing role of AI. The article includes an examination of TTP’s research on the prevalence of deepfake scam ads on Meta platforms targeting older Americans.
While the PTA’s break-up with Meta may lessen its ability to engage in one of these tactics, others remain. To brush up on what Meta may still be doing to clean up its reputation, read TTP’s report:
Online child safety group @fairplayforkids.bsky.social applauded the PTA's announcement, saying "Meta is not a company that deserves the halo of esteemed organizations, and we are glad that the National PTA has stopped promoting Instagram to families." fairplayforkids.org/survivor-par...
Meta has also funded academic research that fosters a more benign view of Instagram, with topics including tech-driven mental health interventions, how social media can enable women entrepreneurs, and the role of Instagram communities in promoting daily fitness activity.
Funding groups like the PTA is just one of Meta's many image improvement tactics. Another that TTP highlighted is the creation of a unit called the Trust, Transparency and Control Labs to publish reports about research and consultations that went into Meta's kid-focused efforts.
PTA President Yvonne Johnson also personally supplied a positive quote for Meta's rollout of its "Instagram Teen Accounts." The announcement did not mention that Meta is a corporate sponsor of the group.
Before this recent severing of ties, the National PTA collaborated with Meta on a parent’s guide to Instagram, and held a series of Meta-sponsored events across the country to promote the Instagram teen features.
TTP documented Meta’s myriad tactics to improve its image, including using groups like the PTA to vouch for it in PR campaigns, using a research “lab” to publish reports supporting its kid-focused products, and funding research around positive uses for IG.
NEW: Following TTP’s August 2025 report on how Meta funds and uses groups like the National Parent Teacher Association (PTA) to help shift the narrative around its products’ impact on kids, the PTA has announced an end to its Meta partnership—citing “heightened public scrutiny.”
This apparent disregard for US sanctions is a pattern for X.
Previous TTP research showed how X has provided premium service to sanctioned officials in Iran and sanctioned leaders of Iranian proxy groups, including Hamas, Hezbollah, and Houthi rebels.
TTP found one of the Iranian government officials who appeared to subscribe to X premium was also using X’s tips feature to request tips in bitcoin, another potential sanctions violation.
The practice also appears to violate X’s own policy, which explicitly prohibits users subject to OFAC sanctions from using its paid services, including premium. archive.ph/k09AZ#select...