Changelog

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On-device indexing

• Indexing names things on the device only. Cloud assist names things during indexing only when you set the new IndexOptions.namesWithCloudAssist and the device cannot run Apple’s on-device model, so a device with Apple Intelligence spends no cloud assist units on indexing.
• The image model embeds photos in full batches: on an iPhone Air, 9 ms a photo instead of 677 ms.
• Search by meaning starts while the library is still being read, and the engine models download in the meantime.

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Places and visits

• New category .locations: neighbourhood, city, metro area, country, coordinates and time zone per photo, visits with their venue and context, and search by place words. See Places and visits.
• Search plans gain the location operation and the place, placeType and contentAndPlace intents. Hits gain the .place reason, placeMatches and placeSimilarity.

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People

• New category .people: faces grouped on the device into unnamed people, with people(using:), photos(of:) and an apparent age range and gender when the on-device face model is sure (ages 0-9 and 20-39 for now). See People.

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Index options

• IndexOptions sets the window, media types, saved videos, a food focus, the most photos, cellular use, automatic updates, run reports, background progress text, places and people, at open or later with setIndexOptions. See Indexing.
• SourceStatus.detail gives the step, counts, what indexing waits for, sensitive captures held back by kind, the time left and the background state; lastRun says how the last run ended and when the next starts. sources.batches(using:) streams captures as they are indexed, and sources.deleteIndex() empties the index and keeps grants, options and models. See Indexing.
• Background indexing: PoolSources.registerBackgroundTasks registers before a client exists; on iOS 26 the first index carries on after the person leaves the app, with progress iOS shows; an update task keeps the index current; a run iOS ends resumes where it stopped, and a failed one waits 10 minutes. List the new <bundle ID>.pool.update and <bundle ID>.pool.continue.* identifiers in Info.plist. See Indexing.
• The default window is now three months back, growing from there. Pass .everything to index the whole library as before.

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Search and results

• Paging with offset, totalCount and searchPlan on every search, date and holiday words, and details on every hit. See Search and browse.

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Answers and interests

• askUpdates streams an answer as it is written. Questions can be 1,000 characters.
• Interests read a taxonomy of 129 topics with strengths and sources. See Interests.

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React Native, Expo and CocoaPods

• @randomaccessmemories/pool-kit wraps the SDK as an Expo module with a config plugin, with the Swift names and typed results. From 0.2.1 the plugin installs the PoolKit pod from the pool-kit repo, so no CocoaPods trunk is involved. See React Native and Expo.
• The SDK also ships as a binary XCFramework and a pod, PoolKit, both from the public pool-kit repo.

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Errors

• Every PoolError has retryable, retryAfter and serverCode. Existing switches still compile. See Errors.

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Security and operations

• App Attest, off, report or enforce per app. See App Attest.
• Key rotation with a 30-day grace, apps that can be turned off, and bundle IDs held until approved. See Keys.
• Indexing run reports and their 30-day summary in the dashboard.
• An MCP server for coding agents. See Build with an agent.