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They're watching your face.
Right now.

Without asking. Without stopping.

Every other cover blocks the camera.
Not one blocks the infrared.
This one does.

The entire category. Every best seller.

Not one blocks infrared.

These are the six best-selling camera privacy covers on Amazon. Combined, they have over 90,000 reviews. Every one of them blocks the same thing: the camera lens. None of them touch the infrared sensor above it. They can't, because they're stuck on the wrong part of the phone.

Look at where things sit on your phone. The camera lens is a tiny circle near the top. The infrared sensor is in the Dynamic Island, the long pill that sits above it. Camera covers are designed to stick on the lens. They don't reach the pill. It's not a material problem. It's a coverage problem the entire category ignored.

Amazon best sellers in camera privacy covers
Camera only. Infrared: exposed.
✕

Every other cover

VS
Camera + infrared. Both blocked.
✓

Blackout

The difference isn't visible.
That's the problem.

Every App Is Watching

Your face decides what you see next.

Thirty thousand invisible infrared dots. Your iPhone fires them at your face every time you unlock it, every time you glance down. They map your face in 3D. You can't see them. They work in the dark. They work when your screen is off.

And every app on your phone can use what they see. TikTok. Instagram. Facebook. Every video, every post, every ad — watching your face react in real time. Your boredom. Your hesitation. Your laugh. Your stare. Then choosing what to show you next.

In 2016, Apple acquired an AI company that reads facial expressions in real time. They didn't tell you why. They didn't have to. The hardware was already there. The apps were already there. They were just waiting for the model.

The camera was never the dangerous sensor.

FACE DETECTED

They built the hardware.
They trained the AI.
They're waiting on the data.
Don't give it to them.

You can't legislate your way out of this.
You can only cover it.

3D facial mesh generated by infrared sensors

What your phone sees

A complete 3D map of your face.
Built without your knowledge.

What It Blocks

Three systems.
All reading your face.

Your phone has three layers of facial surveillance built in. Every other cover stops one. Blackout stops all three.

Front Camera

The 12MP TrueDepth camera. Used for FaceTime, selfies, video. Every other cover blocks this. It's the obvious one. It's not the dangerous one.

Blocked

Infrared Sensors

This is the one nobody talks about. Thirty thousand invisible infrared dots, fired at your face, mapping its geometry in three dimensions. Works in complete darkness. Works when your screen is off. Works whether you're looking at your phone or not. No cover on earth blocked this before Blackout.

Industry first

Expression Mapping

The AI pipeline that takes the camera and infrared data and turns it into emotional scores. Your hesitation. Your fear. Your desire. Your boredom. All of it quantified, profiled, and fed into systems that decide what you see next. Cut off the source data and you cut off the pipeline. You didn't consent to any of it.

The real threat

How It Works

One move.
You're gone.

No setup. No account. No software. A physical cover for a physical sensor. This is how it should have always worked.

01

Peel and place

Stick it to the top edge of your case. 3M adhesive. Takes five seconds. Done once.

02

Close. You're dark.

Flip the cover down. Camera blocked. Infrared blocked. Thirty thousand invisible dots — stopped. You are no longer being read.

03

Open when you need it

One flick and the flap folds all the way back, flat against your case. Take your photo, make your call, close it again. It stays out of the way the whole time it's open.

04

Closed is the new default

Open only when you choose. Not the other way around. That's the whole point.

Blackout cover open Camera exposed
Blackout cover closed Camera blocked

One flick. Under a second.

Specifications

Built around the exact sensors it blocks.

Every dimension measured against Apple's confirmed Dynamic Island specs. It covers the pill completely. No gaps.

Cover width30mm
Flap height12mm
Dynamic Island covered20.7mm
Profile above case~5mm
MaterialSLA Resin
Adhesive3M Repositionable
Infrared blockingYes — industry first
Compatible modelsAll Dynamic Island iPhones

Compatible with iPhone 14 Pro through all current Dynamic Island models. Face ID is disabled while closed — use your passcode. That's a feature, not a bug.

Why we built this

Your face is not / a data point.
Your expressions are not / inventory.
You do not owe anyone / your likeness.

Close it.
You're gone.
That's all it takes.

I Want One

People Are Waking Up To This

You're not paranoid.

This is real. The hardware exists. The AI exists. The data pipeline is being built. Here's how people respond when they find out.

"I knew about the camera. I had no idea about the infrared. The fact that it fires when your screen is off genuinely disturbed me."

— Software engineer, Boston

"I work in digital advertising. I know exactly what this data gets used for. I ordered one immediately."

— Ad tech, London

"The hinge works perfectly. One flick and you're back. But honestly I just leave it closed. That's the point."

— Product designer, SF

Early Access

100 units.
Be one of them.

First run is limited. If this bothers you the way it bothers us, you already know what to do.

$19.99
Single unit · Free shipping ·
First 100 only

One email when it ships. $19.99. No spam. No data sold — that would be ironic.

Build updates on @goblackoutco.