> Additionally, the core of the protection is Communication Safety for Messages, which caregivers can set up to provide a warning and resources to children if they receive or attempt to send photos that contain nudity.
That was announced at the same time, but is different from what the parent is talking about.
One program scans photos that were about to be messaged and if they look like nudity asks "are you sure you want to do that" (and also optionally notified the parents, although it looks like they aren't going through with that part). The scanning happens on device, and the results of the scanning are never sent to Apple or any other third party.
The other program scanned all images that were being uploaded to iCloud and if it found any that matched a government maintained image fingerprint database would notify Apple who would forward that information to the government. Big difference in scope and impact.
No, it’s definitely still there.