Hoping that lots of analytics are being shared with Apple so they can see how many people are not using new features. Looking at you, mail categories.
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Most iPhone Users Uninterested in Apple Intelligence, Survey Suggests
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The only AI things I'm interested in so far are the photo editing tools... and 16 GB RAM.
The latter made my 24 GB M4 Mac mini purchase less expensive than I was expecting, and I'll be getting a 16 GB MacBook Air for the wife next year.
I switched from iPhone 13 Pro to iPhone 11 Pro Max which neither one supports Apple intelligence... Even if I own an iPhone 15 Pro or newer and live in countries where Apple intelligence can be used, and even if the full feature set of Apple intelligence is already available, I would still not use it, I will never use it... I don't even use Google Lens so visual intelligence will receive the same treatment...
After seeing the brilliant Person Of Interest TV series, what people call AI seems infantile to me. A degree of sentience will be required before I can take the term seriously. Right now most of it, not all, just feels like quality of life improvements for the lazy and uneducated. Apple ads represent the demographic well and the quality of their work in this area reflects that well.
Brand loyalty is stupid and I’m glad to see Apple sweating but switching to a Galaxy because of AI is wild
Anecdotal but true for myself: I'm slowly but surely moving away from using Google or DuckduckGo in order to find answers to questions I have. I have switched to using Perplexity or Copilot because the answers are way more relevant, and those services provide concise answers with relevant links so I can double check. For me this is an example of LLMs doing something truly useful and it differs from search engines 'of the past'. I expect this is how 'AI' will worm its way into our phone lives: slowly but surely. Whether a survey says people are interested or not is in my opinion irrelevant... people will simply start using it because it gives them something better. It is up to the OS en app developers to try and find the best use cases for 'AI'. It is early days! Apple is hinting at Siri being able to act as an agent in the future and perform (sort of) complex tasks, and that sounds fantastic. But I have to see it to believe it 
BTW I write 'AI' because we're not really seeing true Artificial Intelligence applications yet.
BTW I write 'AI' because we're not really seeing true Artificial Intelligence applications yet.
As humans hate change the survey responses are not that unusual. But within 2 yrs that survey will probably change dramatically.
When I heard AI was coming to the iPhone, I was fearful it would ruin the experience but so far it has not. If it enhances then I’m all for it.
Recently, my workplace and my wife’s have started implementing MLL models to drive up efficiency. So far it has made my job easier and bit of timesaver.
When I heard AI was coming to the iPhone, I was fearful it would ruin the experience but so far it has not. If it enhances then I’m all for it.
Recently, my workplace and my wife’s have started implementing MLL models to drive up efficiency. So far it has made my job easier and bit of timesaver.
The only AI feature I'm interested in is improved Siri, and that hasn't happened yet. I don't see why Siri needs AI to improve, however. I don't want to have a conversation with Siri, I want her to turn the ******* lights off when I ask her to.
I think Apple is dumb when a year old phone, my 15 Pro, does not have one of the major Apple Intelligence features, visual intelligence, and it is not on my M2 MacBook Air either.
I was pretty disappointed with the camera intelligence feature. Right now it only will do a google image search or hand off to GPT. In the keynote it seemed like it did more? Is that coming later? If so they should have not turned it on at all until then, because users will be less likely to try again when they can just use google.
The new Siri based on an LLM will be extremely useful... but this is in 2026.
Some features promised in Apple Intelligence so far would be useful if they got it right, and if they rolled them out to more languages. ChatGPT works in almost any language you can think of, yet Apple Intelligence only works in English US. I've tried enabling it in English Canada in 18.2 and it specifically says it's not compatible on my 16 Pro.
As much as Apple was before everyone else in AI (we've had AI in iPhones since at least 7-8 years, but nobody really knew because that term wasn't as popular back then), they are seriously late to newer models.
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On another note, most people don't know yet what AI is capable of, and there's a new trend (even here on MacRumors) of actually hating AI, to the point of wanting to disable all those features. It's going to take a few years (and of course Apple Intelligence features that actually work) before people accept that it's better to use AI because everyone else who does becomes more productive and knowledgeable.
Some features promised in Apple Intelligence so far would be useful if they got it right, and if they rolled them out to more languages. ChatGPT works in almost any language you can think of, yet Apple Intelligence only works in English US. I've tried enabling it in English Canada in 18.2 and it specifically says it's not compatible on my 16 Pro.
As much as Apple was before everyone else in AI (we've had AI in iPhones since at least 7-8 years, but nobody really knew because that term wasn't as popular back then), they are seriously late to newer models.
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On another note, most people don't know yet what AI is capable of, and there's a new trend (even here on MacRumors) of actually hating AI, to the point of wanting to disable all those features. It's going to take a few years (and of course Apple Intelligence features that actually work) before people accept that it's better to use AI because everyone else who does becomes more productive and knowledgeable.
Meanwhile the company I work for (biggest hospital in the state) has a blanket ban on using AI on company computers, or on the company network. The domains are blacklisted.
Too much chance for HIPAA violations and errors.
I’m not interested in any of this kind of AI on any product. It’s made the internet worse for me in the past few years. I hate that every time I use Google now, I have to scroll down past an AI summery that has straight up wrong information many times I’ve looked at it.
I also don’t like how much energy AI seems to require.
I also don’t like how much energy AI seems to require.
The notifications and summarizations are particularly useless. I have no idea what it's saying, and it doesn't make anything easier to read. Turned off after 1 day.
I'm not using "Apple Intelligence," and won't be using it, because it's powered by ChatGPT, and ChatGPT has repeatedly been found to offer some pretty off-the-wall answers.
I do use AI, however: X's Grok. I use it on a regular basis. I hardly ever use a search engine anymore.
I do use AI, however: X's Grok. I use it on a regular basis. I hardly ever use a search engine anymore.
I've been using Ai on my MacBook Air and iPad Air. Meh.
While I've tired of the firehouse of "tweets" on X, Grok is pretty cool. It's become my shortcut for quick questions. And Midjourney rules the Ai image space.
While I've tired of the firehouse of "tweets" on X, Grok is pretty cool. It's become my shortcut for quick questions. And Midjourney rules the Ai image space.
I think most of us want the hareware and software options Android-based phones have been getting while iphones keep updating the same old stuff just a little. And forget AI stuff, we just want a Siri that isn't 3/4 useless.
Gotta say, no AI has really impressed me. I’ve used rewrite a couple of times, but that’s just choosing synonyms or slightly different grammar. And it nearly always changes the meaning of at least one sentence.
The whole thing is pretty meh
The whole thing is pretty meh
This 100%. People have been begging for a better version of Siri for more than a decade. Rather than put all your efforts into just building a better Siri and maybe adding some useful photo editing abilities they waste time with nothing but garbage no one will use.
When Craig Federighi tells us we have to wait for an iPad calculator for a decade bc they "want to do it right" and then dumps this trash of an AI on us, its just insulting to the consumer.
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This is true in my experience, and I think it is utter BS that Apple locked “slightly better siri” which is desperately needed behind the entire Apple Intelligence toggle which fills a ton of your apps with AI slop and garbage summaries that require a half dozen toggles to disable.
I think almost every user who turned off Apple Intelligence, myself included, would leave the siri implementation on. I hope iOS19 allows this.
I wish I had even an ounce of the optimism / naivete of the people who think “surely it will improve” and that it’s some kind of revolution.
I use the writing tools constantly. I know it's not for everyone, but I personally find it very useful for casual emails and texting. Photos in the IOS 18 release still sucks donkey balls, but the rest of it seems ok, but nothing that really wow's me.
Siri actually now follows my train wreck of a thought process when asking it something. I can say "call Devin, no, I mean Josh, no I mean my dad, dammit, I actually want to call my mom", and it properly calls my mom after that mess. Saves me a lot of time restating my request.
Siri actually now follows my train wreck of a thought process when asking it something. I can say "call Devin, no, I mean Josh, no I mean my dad, dammit, I actually want to call my mom", and it properly calls my mom after that mess. Saves me a lot of time restating my request.
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