Archive · 11 Aug 2026

Apple's Future iPhones Could Verify Photo Authenticity via iOS 27

Apple's Future iPhones Could Verify Photo Authenticity via iOS 27

Apple makes iPhones and the software that runs them.

Lately, computers can make fake pictures that look very real.

So it can be hard to know if a photo is actually real.

Apple is working on a new feature to help with this.

The feature is called Apple Reference Image.

It would check whether a photo was really taken with an iPhone.

This would give people a reliable way to prove a photo is authentic.

The feature was found inside a test version of Apple's new software, iOS 27.

Right now it is just a rumor, so things may change.

If it works, people could trust photos more.

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