Either that, or Apple really doesn’t want their server to access (ie. decrypt) all photos by default. Maybe they actually weren’t lying when they defended being

Either that, or Apple really doesn’t want their server to access (ie. decrypt) all photos by default. Maybe they actually weren’t lying when they defended being more private by having all computing happen on-device, and the server not accessing your data. Now, what seems more likely to you? They suddenly decided to go towards scanning all offline files for no business nor legal benefit, or they tried to respect their own marketing of how their ecosystem should work?