Apple Intelligence x Storage

[BR4DOKYBrazil]

I've never activated Apple Intelligence on my device, and there are still the files. I even checked here and it's really disabled. Is it normal? Is there a way to delete them?

 

[cynics]

It comes on by default, if you turned it off a while ago only thing I can assume is the core machine learning services that are doing Apple Intelligences (gen AI) job might be using the same storage category. Just spit balling ideas though, but Apple is vague when it comes to system data.

Also Apple File System (APFS) is 'copy on write' and uses snapshots. Storage usage and availability is a calculation from tracked metadata not reality. Data isn't removed when you delete something, the OS removes the tag and system maintenance will remove it during garbage collection. However it won't remove deleted files if they are still referenced in the local snapshot.

 

[BR4DOKYBrazil]

It comes on by default, if you turned it off a while ago only thing I can assume is the core machine learning services that are doing Apple Intelligences (gen AI) job might be using the same storage category. Just spit balling ideas though, but Apple is vague when it comes to system data.

Also Apple File System (APFS) is 'copy on write' and uses snapshots. Storage usage and availability is a calculation from tracked metadata not reality. Data isn't removed when you delete something, the OS removes the tag and system maintenance will remove it during garbage collection. However it won't remove deleted files if they are still referenced in the local snapshot.

Since my iPhone 16 Pro Max, I've never activated Apple Intelligence. Strange to be consuming space without me ever having activated it.

 

[BR4DOKYBrazil]

I activated and deactivated Apple Intelligence and the space is still occupied by it.

When you deactivated Apple Intelligence, did you recover the space occupied by it?

 

[BR4DOKYBrazil]

Can you tell me if I reset my iPhone and restore it through the iCloud backup, the Apple Intelligence files will be deleted? I never activated the AI on this device, I only used, for once, the Clean Up feature in the Photos app and this number does not stop growing. I want to delete it.

 

[kevcube]

Can you tell me if I reset my iPhone and restore it through the iCloud backup, the Apple Intelligence files will be deleted? I never activated the AI on this device, I only used, for once, the Clean Up feature in the Photos app and this number does not stop growing. I want to delete it.

I think it's unlikely someone will know the answer to this question, and it's probably not worth the trouble unless you are running critically low on storage.

 

[BR4DOKYBrazil]

I think it's unlikely someone will know the answer to this question, and it's probably not worth the trouble unless you are running critically low on storage.

I have 200Gb available. It's more of the storage occupied by something I've never used than the lack of storage.

 

[HouseLannister]

I have 200Gb available. It's more of the storage occupied by something I've never used than the lack of storage.

Your phone will always have a fully functioning Apple Intelligence (oxymoron intended) whether you want it or not. Apple doesn't let you have just part of their OS. You get all the components and can't delete any of it. Even with their preinstalled apps, you can't really delete them. You can delete the icons that link to them, but you don't regain any storage and the apps are still on the device, just hidden. Which is why it is so quick to "reinstall" an Apple app from the App Store after you have "deleted" it.