The facial recognition has been enabled by default since I started using an iPhone in 2020. I find it to be useful but not as useful as the map view: as a bird-watcher and wildlife enthusiast, I’ll remember where (but not necessarily when) I took interesting photos. The geo-tagging also makes it easy to delete old work-related photos of computers from my workplace.

I’m generally considered by peers to be somewhat paranoid when it comes to computer/mobile privacy and big ad/tech but I find these features to be very useful and I’m surprised your peers wouldn’t make use of them when they’re available – particularly when the software is so intuitive.

Thanks for the clarification.