Comment by tredre3

> This is probably done to compete with Google Photos which has a great photo search by word feature.

Apple Photos is already capable of searching your photos by word/content fully offline on-device.

Google Photos is unable to search your photos by word/content fully offline on-device. Hell, it can't even search by file name if you don't sync your photos to the cloud!

I don't think Apple has to worry about Google at all.