What’s up with this ‘Apple Reference Image’ rumor?

MacworldSome clever code divers have found something interesting buried in a privacy disclosure as part of iOS 27 beta 5: a new feature called Apple Reference Image.There are plenty of companies adding metadata to AI generated images, and Apple is one of them. In iOS 27, images created with Image Playground will embed the SynthID metadata watermark created by Google.But Apple Reference Image seems to be a tool to help authenticate images another way: rather than just by positively identifying fa