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Apple's Latest Updates Re-Enable Apple Intelligence on Some Devices

koolzero said:
This has been such an embarrassingly bad implementation. Amongst other things, they wasted unknown resources on the unnecessary playground and emoji ai apps. I wonder how many never even opened them. There must be features people have asked for that they could have put those resources towards that would actually be beneficial. Apple was forced to rush something AI related to appease stockholders but it's such a half baked attempt. Apple seems so rudderless now. Wasting money on augmented realty goggles no one wanted, they can no longer sell things you don't need like in the old days.
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Trying to find problems for the tech to solve, rather than trying to find a way for tech to solve problems. That's pretty much where Apple are at.
 
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koolzero said:
This has been such an embarrassingly bad implementation. Amongst other things, they wasted unknown resources on the unnecessary playground and emoji ai apps. I wonder how many never even opened them. There must be features people have asked for that they could have put those resources towards that would actually be beneficial. Apple was forced to rush something AI related to appease stockholders but it's such a half baked attempt. Apple seems so rudderless now. Wasting money on augmented realty goggles no one wanted, they can no longer sell things you don't need like in the old days.
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Who is embarrassed? Customers, shareholders, management? There was no wasting of resources on unnecessary apps.

I opened these unnecessary apps and use them. I suspect millions more do as well.

Apple doesn’t rush to appease shareholders. That’s the quickest way to be another blackberry. And apple is not rudderless. You don’t know internal to apple what value and learning apple vision had. If apple is selling things you don’t want, don’t buy those items.
 
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Jimmy Bubbles said:
+1 for me. I saw that on my M3 MBP yesterday. I dread the day that Apple takes the option away.
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Exactly.
We already went from activate it if you want it to disable it if you don’t
How soon will it be where we have to hunt down and disable each separate part.
How long after that will not be able to shut parts of it off and ChatGPT will be on against my will.
 
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Same with my iPad Air (5th Generation), after software update Apple Intelligence was suddenly enabled. Turning it off prompted a scare box that it might impair functionality, but I decided to take that chance. I only noticed it was on because the System was bugging me to set up Siri.
 
Daalseth said:
Exactly.
We already went from activate it if you want it to disable it if you don’t
How soon will it be where we have to hunt down and disable each separate part.
How long after that will not be able to shut parts of it off and ChatGPT will be on against my will.
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Yeah, I'm starting to wonder how long until we'll have to disable SIP and change things even deeper down to turn it off
 
CarpalMac said:
What I don’t get is how there was huge fuss about Apple adding a free U2 album to devices, however this crap feature almost gets a free pass, except for the occasional article, like this one.

At least the U2 album had some skill behind it.
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We've** gotten so desensitized this type of ####. Just a shrug of the shoulders from the vast majority, then back to Insta/Twitter/Facebook to numb our brains.

**maybe not the median Macrumors poster, but larger society.

FWIW, I turned AI <Off> after updating my M1 Pro MBP to 15.3, and that preference persisted after I updated to 15.3.1.
 
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bigboy29 said:
This is a Microsoft-level move, if intended.
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Nothing like it.

Microsoft wanted to literally install a logger.

Apple Intelligence model is nothing. It’s just a 7GB I/O model that does nothing until you call a function (Writing Tools sub menu).
 
Fixed it. Downgraded to Sonoma on the studio and arranged return of the 16PM and ordered a 14 Pro (16PM is a huge overkill for what I need a phone to do anyway). I’ll watch from afar for a couple of years now and see how it all develops. I do not want this crap forced on me, not in its current state anyway.

I appreciate some people are happy to beta test this, and even find genmoji and the likes useful, but it’s not for me. Does that mean I’m being forced out of the Apple ecosystem. Time will tell.
 
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nottorp said:
Could be incompetence. I've caught them reenabling icloud features I don't want on updates before, but it hasn't happened at least for the last 2 major OS versions.

We'll never know if they fixed it or they got scared and removed the intentional feature though.
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What features did you disable!? I haven’t been paying attention to iCloud updates since iOS15
 
Nekomichi said:
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iPhone 15 Pro Max here, previously I had Apple Intelligence disabled but when iOS 18.3 was installed it was silently re-enabled without warning. The initial boot-up after that update didn't display any kind of "welcome" or onboarding page and took me straight to the Home Screen without any indication that Apple Intelligence had been re-enabled.

To make matters worse, it's stuck in this perpetual "Downloading..." state and has been like this for the past two weeks. Despite my phone being connected to Wi-Fi and charging, it's not actually downloading anything (checked with a system monitor, there's little to no network activity).

There's also no longer a toggle button to disable Apple Intelligence and despite it being an incomplete download, it seems to be rampantly draining my battery (even though it's not supposed to do this while off-charge). Because of this, I can't manually disable the feature or force a redownload/reinstall. My device is stuck like this forever.

I've tried various combinations of reboots, changing region and language settings, and resetting network settings but none of it fixed the issue.

Yesterday's iOS 18.3.1 update also did absolutely nothing to address this.

On the other hand, neither iPadOS 18.3 nor 18.3.1 re-enabled Apple Intelligence on my M1 iPad. Apple's behaviour seems really inconsistent.
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Wow. I have a 15PM, and I can see the toggle, which I immediately turned off, just like the previous updates.
 
turbineseaplane said:
Whether one "likes Apple Intelligence", or doesn't like it, isn't the actual point

Not respecting the preferences of those who've turned it off is indeed "ramming it down their throat"
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The pattern has been going on for years.

First thing I do after a major iOS update: checkingand disabling all the iCloud syncing they surreptitiously activated.
I never consented to syncing my photos library.
Neither did I fir their enhanced visual search recently.
 
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AppliedMicro said:
The pattern has been going on for years.

First thing I do after a major iOS update: checkingand disabling all the iCloud syncing they surreptitiously activated.
I never consented to syncing my photos library.
Neither did I fir their enhanced visual search recently.
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I find it so disrespectful to do that to users
 
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Should Apple re-enable features that they have actively turned off? Of course not. I suspect this is a bug, not some sort of malicious act. But if it is intentional then Apple screwed up. They should apologize either way.

That said, I suspect many of you will be happily using Apple Intelligence in a year or two, but for those who still hate it, you'll be able to turn it off. Fact of the matter is that before you know it having a phone without AI built in is going to sound as crazy as having a phone without a camera.
 
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surferfb said:
Should Apple re-enable features that they have actively turned off? Of course not. I suspect this is a bug, not some sort of malicious act. But if it is intentional then Apple screwed up. They should apologize either way.
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I don’t know… This seems to happen a little too frequently with Apple and updates, as stated above by @AppliedMicro

Perhaps not malicious, but also apparently not expending energy at all in respecting the users existing preferences
 
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surferfb said:
I suspect many of you will be happily using Apple Intelligence in a year or two
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I’ll be excited to try it when it actually does something I find useful

Lol

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What’s your most must have feature with Apple Intelligence so far? I wanna give that a try on my Mac mini.

I do have it enabled right now, but I’m seeing no benefit to my knowledge.

I’m getting close to turning it off because I don’t like the bad recommendations on replies to people with messages. I don’t want any of that actually.

I prefer to respond to messages myself.

I really hope they give us some more granular control
 
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