A Tech Expert Shares The One ‘Essential’ iPhone Setting He’s Turning Off To Make His Device ‘More Secure’
June 10, 2025 by Lisa Cupido
In 2024, Apple and OpenAI announced a partnership that would integrate ChatGPT’s capabilities into Apple’s operating system. This includes on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. As a result, we now have an AI initiative on our phones called “Apple Intelligence.” Some say it’s the future, and that the future is here and it’s best to embrace it.
But one tech expert named Scott Polderman shared on his TikTok that he isn’t comfortable yet with this new advancement, and that there are good reasons behind his thinking:
According to Polderman, he agrees with “industry experts” who warned early on in the process that is Apple couldn’t create its own large language model and had to rely on ChatGPT, it wouldn’t then guarantee the safety and privacy of its users when they’re using that feature integrated in their Apple software. As a result, this is the setting that he says he is disabling to make his device “more secure.”