OpenAI gives Enterprise admins control over ChatGPT screen context capture

OpenAI added a feature called Computer History to the ChatGPT Mac app for Enterprise customers, announced in its release notes on 13 August 2026. It keeps a record of what someone does in the apps and websites they choose, and uses that as context in ChatGPT, so they stop re-pasting the same background. It records interaction events only, not screenshots, screen recordings, microphone input or system audio, and private browsing is excluded. It is off until an admin turns it on for a role, and each person then decides whether to opt in. They can pause it, limit which apps and sites are included, and view or delete what it has stored. It is not currently available in the EEA, UK or Switzerland.
This is the clearest sign yet of where the context problem is heading. Right now, the reason the same brief gets retyped four times a week is that the assistant only knows what was pasted into it. That makes every useful result depend on the person doing the pasting, which is exactly why one-off wins never become a team workflow. A running record of what someone worked on removes the retyping and replaces it with a policy question: whose work should be recorded, and who gets to see it. The controls here are the part worth studying even if you cannot switch it on — an admin grant per role, an individual opt-in, per-app scoping, and a deletable history is the shape most vendors will copy. UK, EEA and Swiss readers cannot use this yet, so treat it as a decision to prepare rather than a setting to change: the same question is arriving in every tool that promises to remember your work.
Analysis
Decide now which roles on your team could reasonably have their app and website activity recorded for context, and which could not, so the answer exists before a tool asks you for it.
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