Apple Intelligence Is Picking Up More User Data Than Expected, Researcher Finds

Yoav Magid of Lumia Security reports at Black Hat 2025 that Apple Intelligence and the enhanced Siri are sending extensive contextual data — such as currently playing media and the contents and contact details of dictated messages from apps like WhatsApp and iMessage — to Apple servers, raising privacy and potential data-leak concerns; Apple initially engaged with the researcher but later characterized most findings as expected behavior mentioned in its privacy policies.