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this is false. it's not scanning your local files. only the files you upload to apple photos.

• barrkel 5y ago
  The compute is on the edge; the data is local, just marked for cloud sync. This way, you get to pay for the capital and energy costs of the scanning instead of Apple.
  • nomel 5y ago
    Am I misunderstanding that this is the literal last step for a photo destined for iCloud, and a way to keep apple from having to decrypt your private photos to scan them? With iCloud sync off, does this scan still happen?
    • simondotau 5y ago
      Correct. Functionally there is no difference to what Google does with their own cloud photo service. The only difference is where the processing occurs. Turning off cloud photo syncing will disable the scan on both Android and iOS.