Comment by swores

The search feature is useful at times, and while local processing is good enough to find (some of the) photos I've taken that match a search term like "table", it can't currently find a photo from a search term of "specific neighbourhood in my city" or "name of specific mountain I climbed years ago" - so if by processing on their servers allows them to do that then it would be genuinely beneficial.

But not beneficial enough to make up for the loss of privacy, so I've disabled it without finding out how useful or not the functionality is.