was that when they said “instead of uploading the images to our servers to do the CSAM scan, we’ll do a quick once over in the privacy of your own phone to see if we can allow-list your photo” ?

And then the whole world suddenly went apeshit, so Apple basically shrugged, said “fine, we’ll do it just like everyone else and put your photos in the relatively unprotected server domain to do the scan”. Sucks to be you.

Understand that at no point was there an option to not do the scan on upload, like all cloud providers, Apple scans for CSAM on any uploaded photos to stay out of any government grey areas.