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Why the AI stays on the phone, how it works, and what that means for your photos.
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AI That Stays Home: Why Pixel Gallery Runs Every Model on Your Phone
The false choice between a smart gallery and a private one, what a phone can actually run today, and the costs we accept to keep the models on the device.
- on-device-ai
- privacy
- design
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How Face Recognition Works Without a Server
Detect, embed, cluster. How Pixel Gallery groups faces locally, how you correct it, and exactly what is stored and where.
- people
- on-device-ai
- privacy
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A Google Photos Alternative That Never Uploads Your Library
What people actually use Google Photos for, how each need maps to a local gallery with on-device AI, and the honest gaps - backup and sharing links.
- google-photos
- alternative
- privacy
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Home-View: See Your Phone's Photos on Your Laptop, No Cloud Involved
How Home-View turns your phone into a local web server, why it only works on your own network, and what the trusted-devices flow does.
- home-view
- premium
- local-network
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Semantic Search Explained: How SigLIP2 Finds 'Sunset at the Beach'
Embeddings, a shared space for images and text, similarity ranking, and hybrid fusion with keyword search. What it costs on a phone and what it cannot do.
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- on-device-ai
- explainer
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On-Device vs Cloud AI for Photos: What Actually Changes
Where the bytes go, why cloud models are bigger, what on-device can and cannot do, and how to check what a photo app really does with your library.
- on-device-ai
- privacy
- explainer