How to remove the handwriting, receipts, documents, and illustrations albums

Starry001 wrote:

That is disappointing. It's not about whether I can see them or not, or if they use more storage or not. If an app is doing something to my personal content without my permission it is an invasion of my privacy by definition.

Whether you read it or not, you gave permission when you updated to iOS 18.x

I want to delete those albums and make it stop scanning them for content...

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Starry001 wrote:

That is disappointing. It's not about whether I can see them or not, or if they use more storage or not. If an app is doing something to my personal content without my permission it is an invasion of my privacy

How can a device totally under your control invade your privacy? Everything on your iPhone does stuff with your personal content, and does it only on the iPhone, where only you can see it, unless you explicitly choose to share it.

• When an email arrives the Mail app extracts the meaningful content from the message to display it; all of the internal routing and headers are removed. That is doing stuff with your personal content.
• When you take a photo the Camera app processes the raw data from the camera’s sensor and converts it to either HEIF or JPEG, thus messing with your personal content.
• The Contacts app sorts your contacts alphabetically, regardless of how you entered the contacts, thus messing with your personal content.

There are many more examples; If you examine any app on your iPhone you will find it is doing stuff with your personal content.

Lawrence Finch wrote:

There are many more examples; If you examine any app on your iPhone you will find it is doing stuff with your personal content.

Contacts keeps alphabetizing my contacts! No matter what order I enter them in!

Starry001 wrote:

But all with my permission. Please stop replying, the correct answer was provided by léonie already.

People are allowed to post in this forum as they see fit as long as they don't violate the terms of use.

I would note that leonie didn't address the issue of "permission," which is what you seem most upset about and which you keep discussing.

It’s possible to remove photos from the collection “Recently Shared”, see picture. Sooner or later the collection will repopulate, there’s no preventing that. But at least we’re in control of what’s in it.

Would it be so wrong to extend that feature to all collections and give back control?

But it does mean that something has been messing around with my photos, scanning and analysing them. I'd prefer to be able to prevent my phone doing this.

Always remember that you have choice. If the app doesn't work the way you prefer go get one that does. Using this app is not compulsory. There are others.

Te-hana wrote:

It’s possible to remove photos from the collection “Recently Shared”, see picture. Sooner or later the collection will repopulate, there’s no preventing that. But at least we’re in control of what’s in it.

Would it be so wrong to extend that feature to all collections and give back control?

Tell Apple:

Product Feedback - Apple

Could you describe what you mean by "handwriting" or show a screenshot of where you see it?

Zurarczurx wrote: … It's no different from finding a dinner guest in my bedroom re-arranging the clothes in my wardrobe.

Good grief! I think it's really really really different than that…

Not to me. At least I'd know the guest and if I asked them to stop then they would.

Richard.Taylor wrote:

Come on-- stop this. There are no humans involved. There's no data leak. There's no one snooping.

You hit the nail on the head!