Are you really using Apple Intelligence or just messing around with it?

[VitoBotta]

I turned on Apple Intelligence on my Mac, but I haven't tried it on my iPhone yet. On my Mac, it's been pretty disappointing. I usually work with BoltAI for real tasks involving LLMs, and compared to that, Apple Intelligence seems like a joke. I can't really see a practical use for it. How about on iOS? Is it more helpful on phones?

 

[mathiasinthe314]

I turned on Apple Intelligence on my Mac, but I haven't tried it on my iPhone yet. On my Mac, it's been pretty disappointing. I usually work with BoltAI for real tasks involving LLMs, and compared to that, Apple Intelligence seems like a joke. I can't really see a practical use for it. How about on iOS? Is it more helpful on phones?

I’ve enjoyed the notification summaries, especially for messages and emails. The writing tools are helpful, but that’s the extent to which it’s affected my daily use. Image playground lost its appeal within a couple of days and I don’t think I’ve used it in about two weeks.

 

[VitoBotta]

I’ve enjoyed the notification summaries, especially for messages and emails. The writing tools are helpful, but that’s the extent to which it’s affected my daily use. Image playground lost its appeal within a couple of days and I don’t think I’ve used it in about two weeks.

I'm really curious about Apple's intelligence on the phone because BoltAI isn't available for iOS yet. Are the writing tools actually easy to use and accessible in all apps or just in Apple's own apps?

 

[mathiasinthe314]

I'm really curious about Apple's intelligence on the phone because BoltAI isn't available for iOS yet. Are the writing tools actually easy to use and accessible in all apps or just in Apple's own apps?

I’ve really only seen it in Apple’s apps, I’ve really only used it in mail. It works well enough to be helpful, but there’s room for improvement.

 

[SebCohen]

It's just not that useful. It won't be until Siri morphs into ChatGPT and can run everything. It's annoying she has to ask for permission to ask for help. Sure it's better than "I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that". It's just too many "clicks".

 

[mathiasinthe314]

It's just not that useful. It won't be until Siri morphs into ChatGPT and can run everything. It's annoying she has to ask for permission to ask for help. Sure it's better than "I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that". It's just too many "clicks".

You can turn the ask function off so it can automatically hand off to Chat GPT. It’s in the Apple Intelligence and Siri menu and click Chat GPT under the extensions header and there’s a toggle on that page.

 

[audirs5]

I want to keep it, but wish I could turn off the "response suggestions" in messages and stuff. Most of the time they are useless,

 

[Zazoh]

Played with. It’s not useable yet. Apple has 6 months to a year to figure this out. They are falling behind too quickly. I have a houseful of Apple devices but if they can’t stay abreast of this, they become the Microsoft Phone of the early 2000s. In that only true die hard fans of Apple who are not interested in the paradigm shift will stick around.

 

[MakaniKai]

I find the notification summaries and breakthrough notifications to be very useful, but all the image generation and ChatGPT stuff is pretty much just a gimmick for me.

 

[UpsideDownEclair]

I... have yet to find a real use for Apple Intelligence. Intelligent Breakthrough’s nice to have! Just – not really feeling it’s that “deeply integrated” into iOS/macOS right now. We’ll see.

 

[WarmWinterHat]

I tried it for a day then turned it off.. 🤷🏻‍♂️

..turned it off on my Mac, as well.

 

[pizzzle]

On 18.2 beta, I use genmoji and image playground. The rest I do not use. I tried the writing tools, but wasn’t too impressed — they often make my writing worse, or my ‘voice’ gets lost. Using chatGPT through Siri is fine, but I could just as easily open the chatGPT app (plus, I prefer claude).

 

[Bazza1]

'Apple Intelligence' is increasingly an oxymoron.

Meanwhile, I wonder what all these companies are going to tell their shareholders after they've spent millions on the technology when - for most consumers - AI is the next 3D television. Flashy, but largely pointless.

 

[DukeSilver79]

I'm sure it'll get better, but right now I feel a bit like "shame on you Apple" for promoting something so heavily when it currently is so much of a nothing. I know it's a business, but it's not a great look for Apple.

 

[shenfrey]

Writing tools are useful I guess

 

[nburwell]

I have only messed around with Apple Intelligence on my iPhone. It really hasn’t drastically changed the way I use my phone (perhaps I’ll use it more once iOS 18.2 is released). I have used the writing tools in mail, but they were just meh. I have yet to use AI on my iPad or MBA.

 

[Benz63amg]

You can turn the ask function off so it can automatically hand off to Chat GPT. It’s in the Apple Intelligence and Siri menu and click Chat GPT under the extensions header and there’s a toggle on that page.

Can you post a screenshot of where that toggle is? I don’t see it under the Siri Menu

 

[atmuris]

Can you post a screenshot of where that toggle is? I don’t see it under the Siri Menu

 

[gadget123]

So I have had the iPhone 16 two months now never used any AI features? Am I missing something there was a big fan fare about it. What should I look out for?

 

[VitoBotta]

I'm not really a fan of Apple's AI and don't use it much on my phone or Mac. It doesn't seem particularly helpful when I'm trying to get stuff done with my phone. On the Mac, though, I do use some AI-powered apps — but definitely not Apple's. The BoltAI app blows Apple's out of the water for me.

There are a lot of people hyping Apple Intelligence up, but honestly, it just doesn't impress me that much.

 

[mox358]

The context awareness and being able to continue issuing commands without repeating "Hey Siri" every time is nice on the phone. I haven't played with the 18.2 beta yet but it kinda feels like until all the personal stuff gets here in March, Apple Intelligence has one or both arms tied behind it's back.

 

[SoYoung]

Played with. It’s not useable yet. Apple has 6 months to a year to figure this out. They are falling behind too quickly. I have a houseful of Apple devices but if they can’t stay abreast of this, they become the Microsoft Phone of the early 2000s. In that only true die hard fans of Apple who are not interested in the paradigm shift will stick around.

And whats so good about the competitions phone for AI stuff? Honestly, I only use the chatGPT app from time to time only for some search stuff and messing around discussing with the AI bot but other than that I don't care much about the whole AI stuff in general that companies tries to push out in our throats since 2023.

 

[The Game 161]

only using 18.1 so very much not alot but will certainly will for 18.2

 

[Zazoh]

And whats so good about the competitions phone for AI stuff? Honestly, I only use the chatGPT app from time to time only for some search stuff and messing around discussing with the AI bot but other than that I don't care much about the whole AI stuff in general that companies tries to push out in our throats since 2023.

Check out Google’s offering. Gemini’s features even out perform ChatGPT4o. Google assistant was ahead of Siri for years. So it makes sense. I work for one of the largest financial institutions and several departments use Large Language Models daily. It’s not going away and I just fear Apple bet this would be a fad and are in trouble now.

 

[mjschabow]

Played with. It’s not useable yet. Apple has 6 months to a year to figure this out. They are falling behind too quickly. I have a houseful of Apple devices but if they can’t stay abreast of this, they become the Microsoft Phone of the early 2000s. In that only true die hard fans of Apple who are not interested in the paradigm shift will stick around.

The one thing Apple has that Microsoft never had (for phones) was a huge existing market share. AI in smartphone software is not nearly at a high enough demand for Apple's existing market share to all max exodus the platform.