[mparrett]

Congrats on the launch! I appreciate the simplicity of the design and your privacy-consciousness. Purchased right away. iOS desperately needs this.

I was similarly frustrated with Photos and worked on a similar idea. My first prototype used CLIP-as-service running on MacOS which is quite fast but meant for building web services. I eventually got the concept running on iOS using CLIP via CoreML but still have some problems to solve. I've faced many of the challenges described in this post. Feel free to reach out if you want to compare notes. Best of luck!

By the way, I encountered an issue on my first load. sorry, can't send a screenshot at the moment. In the auth flow, I granted permission only for a subset of photos (about 200) and now I see "Total -1 Photos need to be indexed". So maybe there's something wrong with that case. Also, the user should be able to update permissions from settings after the first time, in case they want to allow more or less access in the future.

[mazzystar]

"described in this post" I'm interested in your posting, is there a link?

Also, Queryable doesn't seem to support granting permissions to only some albums at the moment, and while I know that sounds silly, I really don't currently deal with this issue. You can uninstall and then reinstall, grant full photo access (if you want), and try again.

[mparrett]

That makes sense and thanks for the solution. And sorry, my comment was not written well. By "post" I meant "thread". If I write anything up I'll be sure to share with you. Congrats again, this is impressive!