“You can turn off Enhanced Visual Search at any time on your iOS or iPadOS device by going to Settings > Apps > Photos. On Mac, open Photos and go to Settings > General”

Leia: Not in Europe, right? Right?

I haven’t accepted iCloud ToS changes in many months, and I refuse to update to iOS 18, because of AI bullshit.

I’ll probably end up back on android over this… at least I can get a phone that can be stripped down to basics… (don’t ask why I got an iPhone at all… mistakes were made…)

The main problem is not even the presence of machine learning content detection. It’s a lot of things predating any sort of machine learning development:

• “Screw consent” mentality: feature is by default on.
• Product tying: Apple doesn’t need to show to the user that the feature is desirable, since it’s tied to its OS.
• Leaking data: feature could be reasonably developed to run locally, but instead it sends data to someone else’s computer aka “the cloud”.