Apple Working on Depression Detection for iPhones: Report

Finally! Now I can add "Being judged by my phone" to the list of anxieties that impact my well-being.

Detecting illegal numbers wasn't enough for them, now they want to detect illegal feelings too.

I support any work being done towards improving mental health, but I worry about the inevitable privacy implications.

I also don't think it should be any single company's job either. There are issues in our healthcare system in regards to mental health, and I think that needs to be directly addressed head on for real sustainable long-term solutions.

I'm not sure I'd want my phone to even be capable of knowing that stuff about me. Especially when it's doing whatever Google or Apple tells it to and I'm not even allowed to see the instructions it follows.

Our phones have given the corporate world a massive bridge into our private lives, and every day they're working on how to insert themselves further for "our convenience".

A description of the UCLA effort can be found here: https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ucla-launches-major-menta...

Seems more like a funded research effort being run out of UCLA and Biogen vice a future iPhone feature.

If there's an API for this can I integrate it into my alcohol and cannabis delivery apps? Think of the customer engagement!

If my phone starts accusing me of depression, Apple will be hearing from my lawyers!

And we were worried about photo scanning.