Apple Intelligence and privacy on Mac
Apple Intelligence* delivers intelligence that is relevant for you and grounded in your personal context, while protecting your privacy with a groundbreaking step forwards for privacy in AI. The cornerstone of Apple Intelligence is on-device processing, so it is aware of your personal information without collecting it.
For more complex requests that require more computational capacity, Apple Intelligence can use Private Cloud Compute, which extends the privacy and security of your Apple products into the cloud to unlock even more intelligence. Private Cloud Compute uses larger, server-based models powered by Apple silicon. Your data is never stored. It is only used to fulfil your requests. And independent privacy and security researchers can verify this privacy promise at any time.
Note: Apple Intelligence is available in macOS 15.1 or later on Mac models with M1 or later. To check whether Apple Intelligence is available for your device and language, see the Apple Support article Apple Intelligence requirements.
About Private Cloud Compute
When a user makes a request, Apple Intelligence analyses whether it can be processed on your device. For more complex requests, it can draw on Private Cloud Compute, which extends the privacy and security of your Mac into the cloud. With Private Cloud Compute, only the data that is relevant to your request is processed on Apple silicon servers, before being removed. When requests are routed to Private Cloud Compute, data is not stored or made accessible to Apple, and is only used to fulfil the user’s requests. Independent privacy and security researchers can inspect the code that runs on Apple silicon servers that enable Private Cloud Compute to verify this privacy promise at any time.
The Apple silicon servers that form the foundation of Private Cloud Compute provide unprecedented cloud security. This starts with the Secure Enclave, which protects critical encryption keys on the server just as it does on a user’s Mac, while Secure Boot ensures the OS running on the server is signed and verified, just like in macOS. Trusted Execution Monitor makes sure only signed and verified code runs, and attestation enables a user’s device to securely verify the identity and configuration of a Private Cloud Compute cluster before sending a request. And to verify Apple’s privacy promise, independent experts can inspect the software that runs on Private Cloud Compute servers.
Note: To learn more, go to Private Cloud Compute: A new frontier for AI privacy in the cloud.
Create an Apple Intelligence privacy report
You can generate a report of requests your Mac has sent to Private Cloud Compute.
Choose Apple menu
.Click Apple Intelligence Report, then choose a report duration (the last 15 minutes or the last 7 days), or choose Off to disable the report.
Note: The report may be empty if there haven’t been any Private Cloud Compute requests since you changed the duration.
Click Export Activity, choose a place to store the file, then click Export.
The report is saved as a file named Apple_Intelligence_Report.json.
Open the file with a text reader.
