Spelunking through Apple's safety models - SafetyNetLight
February 20, 2026On every Apple device are a group of offline classification models that classify images across a number of categories, including safety. While focusing on the SafetyNetLight model, we also discover SceneNetv5, which is a parent model that produces embeddings for scene classification (1,374 categories), entity recognition (7,287 categories), safety classification, object detection, saliency, aesthetics, and fingerprinting.