Apple is making changes to its OS for Macs after users’ complain about Meta’s AI Agent Muse accessing their ‘private data’

Apple is planning to change its Mac operating system, and the reason are AI Agents. The company wants to make it more clear to users when AI agents ask ​to access all of the data on their Macs. The announcement comes after some users have criticized Meta’s ‌Muse, an AI agent for accessing their private messages. While on ​Apple’s iPhones and iPads, no single app can access data inside another ​app by default, company’s Macs are ⁠more flexible. Apple Macs come with a ‘Full Disk Access’ option that allows apps such as cloud ​backup services to access all the data on a machine, with a user’s permission.

In an update posted on its developer website, Apple said that some developers were using the Full Disk Access feature in ways that could put users at risk.