Their iCloud photo upload client is what does the scanning, at the time you upload to their service. It just so happens that their client is bundled with the ph

Their iCloud photo upload client is what does the scanning, at the time you upload to their service. It just so happens that their client is bundled with the phone. I think the root of angst here is that nobody trusts that the client isn’t running even when you don’t choose to upload your photos to their cloud service.