This is… strange, to the say the least.
Phones are getting more intelligent every day, especially when it comes to images and photo storage.
Who among us hasn’t been gifted a random and unnecessary video slideshow of our latest photos to the tune of some unknown royalty-free song?
I certainly have.
There is one iPhone feature, however, that’s been getting a fair amount of attention online… and not because it’s a bit gas.
Go to your phone’s photo app and click on the search tab.
Type in the word ‘brassiere.’
You’ll be presented with a photo album of every photo you’ve taken that contains bras, boobs, and everything in between.
My phone only returned back two images that happen to be selfies of me in low-cut dresses.
I guess they must fall under Apple’s definition of ‘brassiere.’
Great.
This feature was first spotted by Twitter user Ell, who took it upon herself to tell all of her followers to try the feature for themselves.
She also wanted to know “why are Apple saving these and making it a folder?”
ATTENTION ALL GIRLS ALL GIRLS!!! Go to your photos and type in the ‘Brassiere’ why are apple saving these and made it a folder!!?!!?😱😱😱😱
— ells (@ellieeewbu) October 30, 2017
In response to Ell’s tweet, women started sharing their own screenshots of what their phones were classifying as ‘brassiere.’
In some cases, the phone had even created a photo album full of nudes.
Needless to say, people were more than a bit creeped out.
A couple selfies and some nudes and a few pics of me having sex. What the fuckkkkkjjj pic.twitter.com/CTDWxgFnbA
— Lil Lunchable (@statueofleah) October 30, 2017
it could definitely be much worse pic.twitter.com/8HUA5wou8O
— princess (@Pr1ncessSyd) October 30, 2017
However, others then began to realise that their phones were creating photo albums for almost everything from ‘adult cats’ to ‘sandwich’ to ‘holidays.’
I have folder with adult cats pic.twitter.com/8GywN6d7zL
— Anna (@annaivanovai) October 30, 2017
That still doesn’t make ‘brassiere’ being a search option any less strange though.
‘Underwear’ isn’t an option, after all.
As it turns out, this search feature has existed since 2016 and, thankfully, it is entirely private.
When it was first launched, Apple said that they wanted to make it “easy” to find certain photos based on what was in them.
“Advanced face recognition and computer vision technology lets you search your photos by who and what’s in them.
“Photos recognizes scenes or specific objects in your photos, so you can search for things like dogs, mountains, or flowers.”
Or bras, clearly.
