Here's How The iPhone 18 Pro's Apple Reference Image Tech Works
Apple is giving your photos a tamper-proof seal.
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It'd be naive to say that we've always been able to trust what we can see, as if seeing something is evidence that it really happened. There's plenty of evidence throughout history of doctored photos, designed to fool the viewer into believing a story. That said, those skills weren't easily accessible. Now, anybody can create realistic images, or alter photos, just by using their phone. You can't rely on wonky letters or extra fingers to make it obvious, either.
Apple's trying to address this problem with Reference Image mode on the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max. The camera creates a protected copy of what it captures, along with evidence of when the photo was taken. When you're ready, Apple's Private Cloud Compute service checks that this record hasn't been tampered with and turns it into a photo with a...
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