It’s truly disappointing that Apple got so hung up on its particular vision of privacy that it ended up betraying the fulcrum of user control: being able to trust that your device is truly yours.
This is it. Of course I'd like child pornographers to be caught.
But right now my expensive phone will be using up valuable charge looking for photos that aren't there.
And in future I can't be sure it won't be searching for evidence of support for the political opposition. (This is not only China or Gulf states: democracy seems on pretty shaky ground in the US, UK and elsewhere right now).
What makes you think this will churn battery? It’s one extra processing step that’s run before a photo syncs and then cached. You don’t sync every photo every time.
Out of all the arguments on this site against this feature, the battery bit is by far the most unfounded one and super odd to see repeated on a technical forum.
I agree it’s probably not very much battery at all. But it’s not going to be none either, so the principle remains: it’s my phone using my electricity to check up on me without my consent. I really don’t like that.
This is it. Of course I'd like child pornographers to be caught.
But right now my expensive phone will be using up valuable charge looking for photos that aren't there.
And in future I can't be sure it won't be searching for evidence of support for the political opposition. (This is not only China or Gulf states: democracy seems on pretty shaky ground in the US, UK and elsewhere right now).