Overview
- OpenAI rolled out Computer History on Monday, making the feature available in the ChatGPT macOS app to Pro, Business, and Enterprise users while it remains off by default in the EEA, the UK, and Switzerland.
- Computer History captures interaction events such as clicks, typing, keyboard shortcuts, and app switches instead of screenshots or audio and replaces OpenAI’s earlier Chronicle preview.
- Users and workspace admins must opt in before recording starts and can exclude apps or sites, pause collection from the menu bar, and delete single entries or ranges of history.
- OpenAI documents that events are processed on its servers, temporary raw event files are deleted after up to 48 hours, and the generated memory files are written back to the Mac as plain-text Markdown that is not encrypted.
- The company warns of prompt-injection risks and advises excluding messaging, health, and financial apps because other programs running as the same macOS user can read the unencrypted files, a design that critics compare to Microsoft’s Windows Recall and that raises enterprise governance and data-residency concerns.