Apple's 14 September 2026 update extended its global Communication Safety feature to gore and violent content; the nudity block already existed and no new UK under-18 block was announced. Google posted nothing on it by the deadline.
The device-block market resolves YES if Apple or Google publishes, on its own newsroom or product blog between 10 September and 9 October 2026, a new or expanded feature that blocks nude images on UK devices used by under-18s. A restatement of a feature already shipped does not count, and if neither company posts anything, BBC and Guardian reports of a launch settle it.
Of eight such promises since 2016, one got a bill within three months. We set the rule before counting. We looked at every time since 2016 that a UK minister publicly promised a law putting a new duty or offence on tech companies or online platforms, when no bill carrying it was before Parliament. Then we checked if a bill containing that duty had its first reading, its formal start in Parliament, within three calendar months. Changes to bills already in Parliament are left out.