Apple now uses Google servers to power some of its new and upcoming AI features, and the company is using a popup to notify and request user permission in both iOS 27 and iOS 26. Here are the details.
New permission prompt added in iOS 27 and iOS 26 for data that’s sent to Google Cloud
When Apple Intelligence first launched in 2024, one of its primary innovations had little to do with the features themselves, but rather the backend powering those features.
Private Cloud Compute was widely praised by security experts for offering a new standard of security in cloud-based AI technologies. At the time, a key feature of Private Cloud Compute was that it ran entirely on Apple’s own servers.
But in iOS 27 that’s changing—and in fact, the change has already rolled out for some iOS 26 apps.
