X says you can block Grok from editing your photos
X says you can block Grok from editing your photos
X has introduced a new feature that makes it slightly harder for other users to manipulate your uploaded images with the Grok chatbot. As reported by Social Media Today and verified by The Verge, a new toggle within the image upload settings on the X iOS appsays it can “block modifications by Grok” when enabled. But it doesn’t actually prevent Grok from editing your photos.
The small print underneath the feature’s name reveals a significant limitation: users can only “prevent @Grok from modifying this content.” In our testing, the toggle only blocks the mechanism of tagging the xAI chatbot in replies to an image on X, alongside editing inst …