I said no and Apple said yes
- Tuesday 22 Sept 2026 The nice thing about keeping a blog is that I can say at precisely 9:51am, Wednesday 5th February 2025, I discovered that macOS 15.3 had enabled a feature that was phoning home every 15 minutes with personal data.
- At the time Apple were generous enough to provide a setting to disable this feature.macOS 15 Apple Intelligence setting.
- Although they hid the second part deeper, because why should saying “no” be easy?macOS 15 Apple Intelligence privacy setting.
Unverified
- Tuesday 22 Sept 2026 The nice thing about keeping a blog is that I can say at precisely 9:51am, Wednesday 5th February 2025, I discovered that macOS 15.3 had enabled a feature that was phoning home every 15 minutes with personal data.
- At the time Apple were generous enough to provide a setting to disable this feature.macOS 15 Apple Intelligence setting.
- Although they hid the second part deeper, because why should saying “no” be easy?macOS 15 Apple Intelligence privacy setting.
Sources: Dbushell