Apple Says Over 3 Trillion Photos Were Taken on iPhone Last Year

[MacRumors]

During its "Far out" event on Wednesday, Apple said that over three trillion photos were taken worldwide on iPhone last year, proving that the iPhone is always "ready to quickly and effortlessly capture your life's moments."

The statistic was shared during the keynote by Caron Thor, a senior manager at Apple for camera quality. The three trillion photos taken across all iPhones last year include those captured for Apple's popular Shot on ‌iPhone‌ campaign, which promotes photos taken by ‌iPhone‌ users by featuring them on Instagram, Apple's website, and billboards worldwide.

Hoping to continue the iPhone's momentum in photography, Apple has made significant strides in the camera on the iPhone 14, especially the higher-end iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max. The new higher-end cameras feature wider sensors, an all-new 48MP Wide camera, and more.

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[ProfessionalFan]

That was mostly people taking selfies over and over trying to get the perfect one. We've all been there.

 

[kaardowiq]

more interesting: how did they obtain these stats? I didn't know they know how many shots I take...

 

[chenks]

more interesting: how did they obtain these stats? I didn't know they know how many shots I take...

it will be an educated guess based on how many photos were synced to icloud.
the only other way would be if the phone was sending user data back to apple everytime someone used the camera app, which wouldn't be very privacy minded, and apple would never do that......

 

[chucker23n1]

more interesting: how did they obtain these stats? I didn't know they know how many shots I take...

You can opt in to sharing analytics with Apple.

Let's say 10% of users do. Then Apple can multiply the stats by ten and have a reasonably close estimate.

 

[kaardowiq]

it will be an educated guess based on how many photos were synced to icloud.

Out of the US many ones do not use the cloud.

 

[kaardowiq]

You can opt in to sharing analytics with Apple.

Let's say 10% of users do. Then Apple can multiply the stats by ten and have a reasonably close estimate.

thanks, sounds reasonable

 

[iCyprus]

Well, the question is...How do they know?!

 

[phill85]

You can opt in to sharing analytics with Apple.

Let's say 10% of users do. Then Apple can multiply the stats by ten and have a reasonably close estimate.

Ding ding ding, we have a winner…

 

[chenks]

Out of the US many ones do not use the cloud.

where did you come up with that idea?

 

[ProfessionalFan]

You can opt in to sharing analytics with Apple.

Let's say 10% of users do. Then Apple can multiply the stats by ten and have a reasonably close estimate.

Sounds a lot like how the old TV ratings work. Makes sense.

 

[makitango]

more interesting: how did they obtain these stats? I didn't know they know how many shots I take...

Everything that is on your iPhone stays on your iPhone. Oh, wait.

 

[R2FX]

Lovely… so why did you kill Aperture and force us to use Photos to edit all those glorious pictures one by one?

Call it Photos Pro for all I care but bring back the catalogue and editing functionality of Aperture

 

[ProfessionalFan]

Everything that is on your iPhone stays on your iPhone. Oh, wait.

Yeah they were secretly snooping on your photos obviously and to show how brazen they are, they put out this statement to announce their evil secret plan as well.

 

[Sheepish-Lord]

more interesting: how did they obtain these stats? I didn't know they know how many shots I take...

In addition to some other comments, I haven't seen anyone mention how location services is enabled by default for the camera app which is essentially geotag location data. So since it's buried in the settings menu most leave it on and there goes your camera data.

 

[russell_314]

It’s nice that Apple knows exactly how many photos everyone has taken and I bet they could tell us exactly what the photos are of 😂😂

 

[eyez73]

Most of them by my 12 year on son 🤣

 

[Blackstick]

Most of them by my 12 year on son 🤣

I think it’s my 5 year old. She steps on the shutter button and will take 1000 photos of the floor in 2 minutes.

 

[Hildy]

At least 2 trillion of those were made of recycled poses in front of mostly the same points of interest and monuments. Has anyone figured out the carbon footprint of over 3 trillion photos and their relative percentage of uploads to the cloud for either posterity or social media? 😂

 

[makitango]

Yeah they were secretly snooping on your photos obviously and to show how brazen they are, they put out this statement to announce their evil secret plan as well.

I never said anything about content insight. But metadata is still data and sometimes, more intimate than the contents of the data it belongs to.

 

[mikethemartian]

more interesting: how did they obtain these stats? I didn't know they know how many shots I take...

That was the first thought that popped into my head.

 

[mikethemartian]

You can opt in to sharing analytics with Apple.

Let's say 10% of users do. Then Apple can multiply the stats by ten and have a reasonably close estimate.

You can’t make accurate claims using such a weak analysis. You have no idea how well those two groups usage patterns correlate.

 

[oneteam]

A big chunk is most definitely my contribution LOL

 

[_Spinn_]

That’s a lot of pictures!

 

[pooryou]

I could have taken more….I had no idea they cared.