Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
macOS Sequoia 15.3 and iOS 18.3 Enable Apple Intelligence Automatically
- Thread starter MacRumors
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
Ummm no thanks. None of this “intelligence” is useful. Siri is the same old Siri with a new animation. I’m with the 70% who doesn’t care about it
Yeah, that’s the advantage of Window’s registry settings approach mentioned in #4, it works universally for Enterprise management.
Thats not the point. It should be opt in, not opt out! Most Jo blo's wouldn't have a clue how to turn it off,..and Apple knows this!
hahahahahahaha
Apple completely lost it.
Looking for ways to get out of the ecosystem from now on
Apple completely lost it.
Looking for ways to get out of the ecosystem from now on
I would have Siri disabled if you could still use CarPlay without it.
The thing is that, there isn’t much to turn off fully honestly.
You can barely call this “AI”, if Apple had just introduced these as new features, no one here would be talking about them. Ignore the branding for just one second.
There’s a writing tools button on the keyboard now. You never have to click it, you never have to press it, I’m pretty sure you can go in the keyboard settings and disable it, but even enabled it does nothing until you click on it.
Siri… has a new animation. This is nothing related to AI, it is literally just a new system animation that could have been added at any other point in the history of iOS.
The Photos app has some extra buttons that you never have to push.
That’s it!
Everything else, the notification summary, the chatGPT integration, that stuff has to be manually enabled. In fact, it’s not even easy to find, it’s almost like Apple is trying to bury it.
So once again, I’d argue, if it didn’t have the “ Apple Intelligence” label applied, this switch being flipped on by default would be just normal random new iOS feature being added. There really isn’t anything to be afraid of as far as I can tell, just some new options here and there that can be completely ignored.
I could be wrong but I have in the back of my mind that is was advertised as "opt in".
I don't want it, so now it's on me to remember to turn it off - that's not good.
I never used the word "bad"
Modern Apple does have a (thankfully limited) history of occasionally ignoring its own preference toggles or just toggling them without user consent. I wish I had kept a list of these instances, but system toggles do, from time to time, ignore one's wishes. I wouldn't be surprised if the so-called Apple Intelligence toggle was re-enabled in some future update.
Apple should automatically upgrade everyone to, at minimum, an iPhone 16 too if they really want Apple Intelligence adoption to increase. Merely enabling it by default isn't enough as many people haven't upgraded to an AI capable iPhone yet. You hear me, Tim Apple?
yep. I did have Siri disabled until I got a car with CarPlay.
can you quantify that?
I can't find anything using an unusual amount of resources
By my guess, iOS 19/MacOS 16 will have Apple Intelligence be required and cannot be turned off.
Like cinnamon in an Apple Pie
Like cinnamon in an Apple Pie
Except Apple Intelligence is all done on device pretty much with the exception of very limited use cases where it has to communicate with Apple’s cloud servers or ChatGPT, and even then all the data is anonymized. Putting fear in people’s minds is not how you approach this. Apple is not Microsoft. They literally do not sell your data, so, you aren’t really making any sense.
you said not good. I took that to mean bad
I'm curious what difference it makes to you whether it is on or off
That is what is frustrating. Apple has given us MDM keys to disable certain features, but not a master key to turn off all of AI. It could easily do it, but Apple won’t do it. The only hacks option is to completely block access to Siri & Apple Intelligence in System Settings
Free beta testers, can't turn that down.
potential resource usage
un-intended usage
potential collection of data
...
not good does not equal bad. bad would be if there were no toggle for example
It should be opt-in, not opt-out. They can still change their mind before the public release.
Serious questions:
- Since it’s enabled upon upgrade, does it immediately start indexing/looking for data to link together for AI purposes upon post-install restart?
- If I turn it off, do we know how much is offloaded? How much of the resources used by AI, if any, do we get back?