Apple’s Enhanced Visual Search raises privacy concern for iPhones, Macs running on iOS 18, macOS 15

The Enhanced Visual Search feature scans photos to identify landmarks and provides additional contextual details. Apple doesn’t directly access users’ full photos, but the process requires all images to be scanned on-device and some data to be shared

Apple’s Enhanced Visual Search raises privacy concern for iPhones, Macs running on iOS 18, macOS 15
The Enhanced Visual Search feature scans photos to identify landmarks and provides additional contextual details. Apple doesn’t directly access users’ full photos, but the process requires all images to be scanned on-device and some data to be shared