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This viral photo app that makes you look old.


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Published : 19 Jul 2019 07:12 PM | Updated : 07 Sep 2020 05:30 PM

If you've been seeing your Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter feeds filled with photos of friends and family members that seemingly aged overnight, you're not alone, reports businessinsider.

In recent days, there's been a resurgence of interest in FaceApp, the popular photo app that uses artificial intelligence to apply filters that can make you look older or younger, or swap your gender, in addition to other effects. The app launched in 2017, but it has been flooding social-media feeds everywhere over the past several days. Celebrities from the rapper Drake to the famous chef Gordon Ramsay and the pop group the Jonas Brothers have been using the app to see how they might age.

But there are a few things you should keep in mind before you start uploading your photos. The app's terms give FaceApp, which is based in Russia, the freedom to use user content however the company wishes. There has also been some concern over how the app accesses a user's photo library even if that person doesn't give the app permission to do so. But TechCrunch reported that Apple offers a tool developers can build into their apps that lets users choose one photo from their library to upload without giving that app access to the entire library.