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Twitter blocks some tweets with a "potentially sensitive content" warning, including when you lot're retweeting them. Yous can disable this warning—fifty-fifty on an iPhone or iPad. You can as well disable sensitive content warnings on your tweets without making your account private.

What Is "Sensitive Content?"

Twitter says this warning label is for "potentially sensitive content . . . such every bit violence or nudity."

To be blunt, Twitter is a more anything-goes social network compared to Facebook. While Twitter's sensitive media policy does ban "excessively gory" media, "media depicting sexual violence," and illegal content, about anything else goes.

By default, Twitter restricts this media with a warning similar, "This media may contain sensitive material," "This profile may include potentially sensitive content," or "The post-obit media includes potentially sensitive content."

If yous don't take a Twitter account, you lot'll need to create ane and sign in to change this setting.

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How to Skip the "Sensitive Content" Warning

You disable the Sensitive Content warning from Twitter's privacy settings. Yous'll also discover these options in the aforementioned place in the Android app, but they're not available in the Twitter app for iPhone and iPad. If you modify the setting on the web, however, the Twitter iPhone and iPad apps volition show you sensitive content without whatever warnings.

To disable the warning, head to the Twitter website and click the "More" push on the left side of the screen that's represented by three dots in a circle.

Next, select the "Settings and Privacy" selection from the pop-up menu.

Select the "Settings and Privacy" option

Cull "Privacy and Safety" from the list of options on the left so select "Content You See."

Most the height of the screen, check the box next to the "Display Media That May Comprise Sensitive Content" to disable the warning for tweets.

Check the box next to "Display media that may contain sensitive content"

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How to Show "Sensitive Content" in Searches

Tweets with sensitive content are normally hidden from searches, but yous can enable them if you lot prefer.

Only like to a higher place, you can follow these steps in the Twitter app for Android, but the setting isn't available for iPhone or iPad.

To do so, become to the Twitter website and click More > Settings and Privacy > Privacy and Safety > Content Y'all See > Search Settings. Uncheck "Hide Sensitive Content" here.

Uncheck the "Hide Sensitive Content" box

How to Remove the Alarm From Your Own Tweets

To stop Twitter from marking media y'all upload as sensitive, choose More than > Settings and Privacy > Privacy and Safety > Your Tweets. Ensure "Mark Media You Tweet as Containing Material That May Be sensitive" is unchecked.

This option is available on the spider web and in the Android app but non in the Twitter app for iPhone and iPad.

Annotation: Twitter reserves the right to permanently enable this option for your business relationship if you lot corruption this option and upload sensitive media without tagging information technology as such. If you tin can't disable information technology, that'southward why.

Uncheck the "Mark Media You Tweet as Having Material That May be Sensitive" box

If you don't want to see sensitive content, don't worry—that's the default setting on Twitter. But ensure the "Display Media That May Contain Sensitive Content" option is disabled and the "Hide Sensitive Content" option for searches is enabled.