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Can you even turn facial recognition off? Open the Photos app, search for "people", and it will pull up photos of people's faces. Tap on one to make a full scr

Can you even turn facial recognition off? Open the Photos app, search for "people", and it will pull up photos of people's faces. Tap on one to make a full screen picture, and swipe it up , it will show "Related" people and pictures. You can tap on someone to find more photos of them. Even if you never tagged them with names. (You can also search Photos for general terms, like "flower" or "snow" or "food", it's doing image recognition on all pictures somewhere). iOS 11, 12 at least.

saagarjha 8y ago
Just curious, why would you want to turn facial recognition off?
- justtopost 8y ago
  Some notion of privacy? My device compiling a biometric database about me and those around me is beyond creepy, and ripe for hacking, sales, or other abuse, for the tiny perspective usefulness it could provide matching my photos up automagically.
- mixmastamyk 8y ago
  Or rather, why would one want devices recognizing and creating permanent records? Police can unlock by pointing it to your face. Apple may have a better track record than most, why I own an iphone, but unlocking a device was never a burden to me. It's a button press if you've done it recently.
Terretta 8y ago
> it's doing image recognition on all pictures somewhere It's doing it on the device. An On-device Deep Neural Network for Face Detection Apple’s iCloud Photo Library is a cloud-based solution for photo and video storage. However, due to Apple’s strong commitment to user privacy, we couldn’t use iCloud servers for computer vision computations. Every photo and video sent to iCloud Photo Library is encrypted on the device before it is sent to cloud storage, and can only be decrypted by devices that are registered with the iCloud account. Therefore, to bring deep learning based computer vision solutions to our customers, we had to address directly the challenges of getting deep learning algorithms running on iPhone. https://machinelearning.apple.com/2017/11/16/face-detection.html https://machinelearning.apple.com/2017/11/16/face-detection....
- jodrellblank 8y ago
  I didn't mean "might be in the cloud", I meant in the context of the parent poster saying "I will never use facial recognition or Siri" - Siri is a thing you have to call up to use it, but facial recognition is "happening somewhere in the device" without having to open the Photos app or any other app and ask it to run.
mixmastamyk 8y ago
I don't think so, but doesn't change the fact that I don't want it and never will.

saagarjha 8y ago

Just curious, why would you want to turn facial recognition off?

justtopost 8y ago
Some notion of privacy? My device compiling a biometric database about me and those around me is beyond creepy, and ripe for hacking, sales, or other abuse, for the tiny perspective usefulness it could provide matching my photos up automagically.
mixmastamyk 8y ago
Or rather, why would one want devices recognizing and creating permanent records? Police can unlock by pointing it to your face. Apple may have a better track record than most, why I own an iphone, but unlocking a device was never a burden to me. It's a button press if you've done it recently.

Terretta 8y ago

> it's doing image recognition on all pictures somewhere It's doing it on the device. An On-device Deep Neural Network for Face Detection Apple’s iCloud Photo Library is a cloud-based solution for photo and video storage. However, due to Apple’s strong commitment to user privacy, we couldn’t use iCloud servers for computer vision computations. Every photo and video sent to iCloud Photo Library is encrypted on the device before it is sent to cloud storage, and can only be decrypted by devices that are registered with the iCloud account. Therefore, to bring deep learning based computer vision solutions to our customers, we had to address directly the challenges of getting deep learning algorithms running on iPhone. https://machinelearning.apple.com/2017/11/16/face-detection.html https://machinelearning.apple.com/2017/11/16/face-detection....

jodrellblank 8y ago
I didn't mean "might be in the cloud", I meant in the context of the parent poster saying "I will never use facial recognition or Siri" - Siri is a thing you have to call up to use it, but facial recognition is "happening somewhere in the device" without having to open the Photos app or any other app and ask it to run.

mixmastamyk 8y ago

I don't think so, but doesn't change the fact that I don't want it and never will.