# How to Turn Off Twitter Sensitive Content Warning on X/Twitter > Where the two sensitive-content checkboxes are on web and mobile, what each one filters, and why turning them off does not always take effect. - Source: https://tweetsweep.com/blog/how-to-turn-off-twitter-sensitive-content-warning-on-x-twitter - Published: 2024-07-14 - Updated: 2026-08-16 - Reading time: 5 min --- ## Grey content overlay The grey overlay is the box that hides an image or video until you tap View. It shows in-home timelines, replies, profiles, and quote post sections of the platform. X applies it when media is marked as sensitive by the post author, a classifier, or abuse report. The fact that you cannot tap at an overlay once and have it permanently gone on reload. The overlay is powered by account settings in addition to per-post flags. For the media that you want to show by default, edit the viewer setting — not the post itself. Two Controls: They Do Different Jobs The first is Display media which contains sensitive content and determines if flagged media by others is to be shown or hidden behind grey. The second is to Stamp media you post as sensitive material, which stamps every upload you make. The most common reason an overlay won't go away after a change in settings is just them getting mixed up. If your timeline is all grey boxes, then fix the viewer control. The solution is to fix the poster control if your own tweets keep shipping with the warning attached. ## Viewer display setting On the web, go to Settings and privacy, then Privacy and safety, then Content you see. Tick Display media that may contain sensitive content to enable them. But this one tick is what stops the gray overlay on others images and videos in your feed. The change is stored in the account, not the browser cookie so once it saves it follows you to every device. You will not even see the checkbox if the birthday on the account is less than 18. Can then return to Content you see if the line is missing Update the birthday first It was done so until you clicked on it, then refreshing the home timeline and opening up some profiles displaying the grey boxes beforehand. Media obfuscated for your viewer preference should now be loaded in the open. Overlays can still appear on individual posts that X signaled out. So that flag resides on the tweet itself, not your account filter. The search control described next is located in the same Content you see screen. Verify that the Display media box remains checked after navigating away from the page, as an unsaved toggle will reset on your next sign-on to any browser. ## Search result filter You see Search settings in the same Content you see area. Hide sensitive content is a different toggle that filters results even after enabling Display media that may contain sensitive media. That hide option is still hot if searches return thin, or just chock full of placeholders. Turn it off. Search does not share a filter with the timeline. That is why people believe to have received cleaned search like this while still having media posted in the feed - because of the first tick failing on something protected. Keep Hide sensitive content unchecked in order to make search match the timeline. The search filter covers the search box at the top of x.com and in-app search once the account syncs. Notification, or bookmarks are not affected. Now with sensitive content disabled, repeat the same query you used earlier. Stripped-for-sensitivity results should come back. If no result has been found, the tweet could be deleted, limited or blocked through safety controls by another person using mute or block. This setting is per account. It is not something that you set once per browser or once per phone. ## Mobile browser change Displays media likely to contain sensitive content in the iOS and Android apps. The lack of a line under the Settings and privacy, Privacy and safety tab regarding Content you see is just because app store rules. If you find no checkbox, stop looking inside that app. Launch a mobile web browser, visit x.com from there as well, log into the same account and adjust the settings on the site. It is stored on the account level. This is then picked up by the app on a subsequent refresh or with going through another full launch of the app. The website will also hide the option if you aren't able to be aged 18 or over on the date of birth stored on your account. Before you think the domain control is lost, go to Your account, then Account info and then Date of birth. Change your birthday to 18 or older again, go back to Privacy and safety → Content you see → check Display media that may contain sensitive content. Website: Uncheck the same settings in Search Follow through with force closing the app and restarting it to pull in the account flags again. It should then have the same behavior as the overlay on the desktop site. ## Posted media label The other location is in Privacy and safety, Your posts. When activated, you must place a label on any media you download which states that it contains possible sensitive content; however, once engaged, the mark is placed on every picture and video you upload. The overlay then shows up on other people's phones--and usually on yours too, regardless of whether the media needs it or not. If you enabled this by mistake and you are not posting adult content, turn it off. If you do post that material, then leave it on. The policy of not labeling real porn content is a violation. Disabling this does not re-write posts you have already published. Those posts retain the label they carried when published or one of the tags added to them later by X. Once the toggle is either off, new posts go out without the auto stamp. Make sure to check the toggle again after an app update or logging into a new device, as it can be turned back on during a restore. If you post only screenshots and random pictures, then exclude the tag. If the grey still displays with a new tweet following the change, the media was classified not stamped by this switch. ## Existing flagged posts Individual posts can be flagged either by X classifiers or user reports. Disabling Display media that potentially contains sensitive material or Mark media you post does not unflag those prior posts. For people who have their viewer setting still set to hide sensitive media, the grey overlay clings like a parasite to that tweet — and sometimes even you. Cannot unflag a collection of accounts en masse in Settings and privacy. The only practical solution if you no longer wish those posts on the profile featuring a warning, is deletion. Edit does not undefinitively clear a classifier flag. TweetSweep, which won't leave you to search and delete each individual tweet manually by keyword or date range. If the set of flagged media all came down in one period, use a date range; if it is associated with a specific campaign (or something marking the set), use a keyword. When the post is deleted, so too is the overlay. Only new viewing and new uploads are affected by the account settings you have already changed. If you did a full sweep, in the profile media tab check that grey boxes are gone from those posts you wanted to drop.