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> For example, Apple will now scan your photos using facial recognition to cluster people together in your photo collection.

Apple's OS X photo apps have done facial recognition since 2009. This new thing is more advanced as well as a first for iOS, but I'd hardly call it a "big shift".

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The first is doing it on a mobile device, locally, without sending data to the cloud. That's pretty big, and only been possible recently with the performance increase in mobile SoC's.

They really emphasized that this is done on the device, too! Definitely cognizant of the growing hesitation (amongst the crowd in attendance) towards what data corporations have on users.

Previous versions already did that.

Previous versions did not do that on mobile devices, only Macs.

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