Apple just added a Google Cloud warning for your iPhone's AI features

Apple is rolling out a Google Cloud pop-up warning that appears before certain Apple Intelligence features send user prompts off-device, the company announced. The heads-up appears when using certain image- and shape-generation tools and does not block the features. It ensures users know their data is leaving Apple servers before they hit send. The prompt appears in real time when generating shapes in iWork on iOS 26 and for similar AI tools in Freeform in the iOS 27 developer beta. It also appears in Apple Creator Studio image-generation features in apps like Pages. Users can accept it once or set it to always allow. Apple said its privacy promise holds up no matter whose servers are doing the work and that Google cannot hold onto data for long, peek across sessions, or use the data to train its models. The company initially leaned on ChatGPT for features its own AI models could not yet handle and is now also turning to Google Cloud for certain image- and shape-generation tasks. Slide generation uses ChatGPT, capped at roughly 50 presentations of eight to 10 slides each per month. Image- and shape-generation tools lean on Google Cloud, capped at around 50 images or 250 shapes per month. On-device Apple Intelligence features and the new Siri AI still run on Apple Foundation Models processed on the iPhone or through Private Cloud Compute.