Apple developing iOS feature to verify iPhone photos as authentic, not AI-generated

Apple appears to be working on a new iOS feature called 'Apple Reference Image' that embeds provenance metadata into photos at the moment of capture. Code references for the system were discovered in iOS 27 beta 5 by 9to5Mac, suggesting the feature is in active development. The tool would allow users to verify that an image was genuinely taken with an iPhone camera and has not been AI-generated or manipulated. The feature is not yet live and, according to a privacy disclosure in the beta, will be turned off by default when released. If it rolls out, users would be able to enable it through the Settings app under the Camera section.
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