“Debunked: The Truth about mediaanalysisd and Apple’s Access to Your Local Photos on macOS”
4 min readJan 27, 2023
A recent thread on Twitter raised concerns that the macOS process mediaanalysisd, which scans local photos, was secretly sending the results to an Apple server. This claim was made by a cybersecurity researcher named Jeffrey Paul. However, after conducting a thorough analysis of the process, it has been determined that this is not the…
