New Delhi, April 15 -- Apple privately threatened to remove the Grok app from the App Store earlier this year after users generated sexualised deepfakes of women and children, according to a report by NBC News. The report notes Apple revealed the details in a recent letter to US senators.

Notably, after the controversy around non-consensual sexual images picked up pace, there was a lot of pressure on Apple to remove the X and Grok apps from its App Store over violation of its policies. A group of Democratic senators had even written to Apple Chief Tim Cook to suspend the two apps from its App Store for spreading child sexual abuse material.

However, the new NBC report now notes that while Apple remained silent during the whole controver...