PSA: Turn Off Apple Intelligence Report

[Sheepish-Lord]

Didn’t think Apple would be this aggressive, holy ****.
“This report may include personal data such as messages and text you enter in intelligent writing tools.”

Settings>Privacy & Security>Transparency Logs

 

[User #07242024]

That report is for you should you need it.

 

[Tagbert]

Yea, that is pretty much to be expected.

 

[haruhiko]

Wow that’s a bit creepy, why is such a report needed?

 

[Tagbert]

Wow that’s a bit creepy, why is such a report needed?

that is probably an optional debug report. The may contain clause is because the AI may have analyzed some of your messages or text you sent to the AI.

 

[MegaBlue]

Wow that’s a bit creepy, why is such a report needed?

Didn’t think Apple would be this aggressive, holy ****.
“This report may include personal data such as messages and text you enter in intelligent writing tools.”

Settings>Privacy & Security>Transparency Logs

The report is there for transparency. They talked about it when Apple Intelligence was announced. It allows you to see if your request was interpreted on device or on the Private Cloud Compute servers.

The report is generated locally and not shared with Apple.

 

[chrono1081]

Wow that’s a bit creepy, why is such a report needed?

If there's some kind of troubleshooting apple needs to do. They can't just take these logs you have to send them with special permissions.

 

[Cmd+Q]

Is there a list of which requests are processed on devices and which go to Apple? I just installed the iOS 18.1 RC on an iPhone 15 Pro and it is not readily apparent from interacting with the new features:

• Using writing tools, the report shows all requests go to PrivateCloudCompute
• Summarization in Mail, same thing.
• Clean Up in Photos is not listed in the report, and it downloaded some artifact onto the device before I could use it. So that’s all on device?
• Siri interactions are not listed either but they always get processed in the cloud by default.

Is there an Apple support page or in depth guide that explains this? I could find anything.

 

[Tagbert]

• Siri interactions are not listed either but they always get processed in the cloud by default.

Where did you get that assumption? In recent years, Apple has moved more and more Siri processing on device. That may shift as Siri becomes more of an LLM AI, but the current Siri hasn't really changed much.

 

[Cmd+Q]

Where did you get that assumption?

Thanks for the reminder that there are some good on-device capabilities in Siri since iOS 15 was released in 2021. I don‘t think I have seen a list for Apple Intelligence features similar to that for on-device Siri. Have you?

 

[Tagbert]

Thanks for the reminder that there are some good on-device capabilities in Siri since iOS 15 was released in 2021. I don‘t think I have seen a list for Apple Intelligence features similar to that for on-device Siri. Have you?

Nope. Still waiting for that

 

[Cmd+Q]

On the original topic though, I would say having a report like this is great in terms of transparency; even if the original intent was debugging, given the reports current JSON output and unpolished UX compared to the App Privacy Report feature. Especially considering that other services are going to be connected into the Apple Intelligence framework: my hope is that we will be able to see what data/metadata is transmitted to Apple, OpenAI, etc.