[ajconway]

Apple continues to invest in the user experience and potential privacy. Unlike Android, the features that require data processing and ML are not offset into the cloud. This means that if Apple finally moves to encrypting the iCloud storage, users won't loose semantic search over their photo library, health data, and other similar features.

(I particularly like the new option to pre-select the photos that you want an app to see, rather than giving complete access to my photo library)

[logicOnly]

This is not factual, this is Apple marketing.

There's no indication Apple is doing anything noteworthy regarding privacy.

[ajconway]

Apple specifically declares that they do these things on device. If they don't, this is an opportunity for a class action.