Apple Reference Image is a new way to authenticate iPhone photography

Apple Reference Image gives iPhone 18 Pro owners verifiable evidence of what the camera captured, offering a new defense against convincing AI-generated and edited images.Apple Reference ImageThe opt-in feature uses a new sensor in the Main camera that can sign every pixel it sees. Taking a photo in Reference mode captures signed sensor data that Private Cloud Compute turns into…

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