What’s up with this ‘Apple Reference Image’ rumor?

Macworld
Aug 11, 2026, 3:06 pm225 ptsTrending
Macworld Some clever code divers have found something interesting buried in a privacy disclosure as part of iOS 27 beta 5: a new feature called Apple Reference Image. There are plenty of companies adding metadata to AI generated images, and Apple is one of them. In iOS 27, images created with Image Playground…

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