Then don’t enable iCloud backup. If you do enable iCloud backup you’ll have your images scanned in both cases. There’s functionally no difference, except one o

Then don’t enable iCloud backup. If you do enable iCloud backup you’ll have your images scanned in both cases. There’s functionally no difference, except one offers a future path to encryption on iCloud servers. If this was about on device scanning without iCloud backup enabled then I’d agree with you, but it’s not.