When AI Photo Management Goes Local: Opportunities and Challenges for Tag Your Photos

Have you ever wondered where the dozens of photos you take on your phone every day ultimately end up? Cloud, servers, training datasets, or some third party you'll never know about? Apple Photos' smart classification feature is already good enough, but the act of "tagging" still requires manual user effort—until Tag Your Photos appeared. It promises to use AI to generate keywords for Apple Photos, running 100% locally on Mac. This sounds simple, but it hides a very difficult question of the digital age: Should we trust the cloud?