ChatGPT can now watch everything you do on your Mac all day — clicks, typing, app switches — and remember it
OpenAI has launched Computer History, an opt-in feature in the ChatGPT desktop app for macOS that records what you do across apps and websites and turns it into memories ChatGPT and Codex can draw on. It does not take screenshots: using macOS accessibility features, it logs interaction events — clicks, typing, keyboard shortcuts, app switching — then periodically converts them into text summaries stored locally as Markdown files, arranged in a timeline by day and by app. You can then ask what you were doing before lunch, where that document you opened yesterday lives, or for a summary of yesterday's work. The feature appeared in OpenAI's changelog on 13 August and is rolling out to Pro, Business and Enterprise users, with the European Economic Area, Switzerland and the UK to follow. It is off by default; in Business and Enterprise an administrator must enable it first, and each person then opts in individually. OpenAI says the raw event files are not retained after processing and are not used for training.
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