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🕵️Every Mac Since macOS 13 Quietly Builds a Graph of Your Life

Your Mac is mapping your relationships. Check what it knows.

TL;DR

Every Mac running macOS 13 or later runs daemons that build an on-device graph of your contacts, relationships, locations, and habits. It's stored in SQLite and queryable by LLMs. If you care about data exposure, this one's worth auditing today.

Every Mac since macOS 13 ships with a pair of daemons quietly building a graph of who you know, how those people relate to each other, where you go, and when you do it. The graph lives in ~/Library/IntelligencePlatform as SQLite databases, and it's designed to be queried by LLMs. Nobody asked for a personal knowledge graph on their laptop, but here we are. If you do anything on a Mac for work, this touches you. The graph pulls from Contacts, Calendar, Photos, Messages, Mail, location, Screen Time, and device signals like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and charging state. That means your team's org charts, your client meetings, and your side projects are all cross-referenced in one place. Check your own machine before you assume it's empty. The core file is graph.db, a triple store with 181 entity classes and 278 predicates. Every row is a subject, predicate, and object, and each edge carries a confidence value, its sources, source duplicates, and a timestamp. It also feeds Family Sharing ages, Medical ID emergency contacts, and Siri Suggestions data. The catch? The data is local, but anything that can read the file can read your life.

Every Mac Since macOS 13 Quietly Builds a Graph of Your Life — Eighth Rank

Key Points

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The core store, graph.db, is a triple store using 181 entity classes and 278 predicates to describe people, organizations, events, and software.

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