The Photos app in Windows 10 has the same capability. And the Apple and Microsof...

giancarlostoro · on May 22, 2020

Is the Windows 10 one truly offline or does it eventually phone home in some way? Genuinely asking out of curiosity.

hashhar · on May 23, 2020

The classification model runs offline. I can say this because i had it classify a lot of pics while I was out on a trip with no internet.

But i do think it fetches newer models given the chance.

nkristoffersen · on May 25, 2020

I'm pretty sure classification happens locally for Apple as well. They call it "on-device machine learning". It doesn't mention it for MacOS photos but I can see `photoanalysisd` running in the background on my Mac.

https://www.apple.com/ios/photos/

giancarlostoro · on May 23, 2020

I am okay with it fetching models my issue is it uploading my files without consent. Thanks for sharing I had no doubt they would do this I just would like to know the whole picture. I am sick of companies just uploading things without consent. What if I am a competitor? Now you stole my IP.