I just don't trust myself enough to not fuck up and lose all my photos if I self hosted something that was equal. I run a small home lab and I never store anything on it I cannot afford to lose.
The iPhone was able to complete all of those searches without sending my data to Apple. When companies like Google say they have to have a copy of your pictures, they are lying.
> When companies like Google say they have to have a copy of your pictures, they are lying.
Did Google actually say that? I think they just built a product with different trade-offs than Apple Photos.
The phone automatically offloads the full-resolution images to iCloud while retaining thumbnails and metadata. The photos on iCloud are encrypted so that even Apple can't see them.
Moving the goalposts doesn't change the fact that everything you want can be done on-device, with none of the privacy-destroying methods that Google has imposed on the world.
Blew my mind when I first saw they had added it.
You have to tag your pets (I think it'll prompt you at some point, or IIRC you can tap your pet's face) and name them, but after that it'll also create an auto-category (label? album? Whatever) for each pet.
Super cool stuff.