Another top feauture added to the mini. Together with a turned off Siri.
Will keep my mini until next CEO brings more feautures, or a new small phone.
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PSA: iOS 18.3.2 Re-Enables Apple Intelligence If You Turned It Off
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Will keep my mini until next CEO brings more feautures, or a new small phone.
Using conspiracy is a little harsh term. It's how you get user adoption. Note: writing software for 30 years and 20 years of engineering/product management so I know exactly how this stuff happens. A bug it is not.
The fact it's not happening to everyone suggests nothing. It could be an A-B test. It could be a regional restriction. You have no data to back up your assertion that it's random. I would assume based on the fact they do actually test their products properly usually and bugs are usually very much more obscure, and the risk of a provisioning step blocking a user from using their device is high resulting in larger test attention, then by elimination it is unlikely to be a bug.
In my case, one of the previous updates caused a bug that removed the off-toggle so turning it off wasn't an option for me.
Exactly
Every time I walk into an Apple Store they slip an iPad under my arm and tap my Apple Watch for payment. They tell me that’s the power of arm architecture.
Android is way worse. You have to dig into sooo many menus to disable the piles of privacy/security settings, and Google/Samsung etc add new ones with updates, they’re no better
Also, my apple intelligence didn’t turn back on, so I think this is overblown. I’m guessing it’s a bug
“There's also a frustrating catch. Disabling Apple Intelligence doesn't free up any storage. This limitation can be incredibly annoying for those trying to reclaim precious storage space. It's easy to see why AI pioneer Robert Scoble called the new system "Apple Unintelligence." But the good news is that, unlike other big tech companies, Apple Intelligence provides an opt-in feature that allows users to turn off features they don't want or need.”
Also a further source is my own personal experience, I disabled apple intelligence 2 days ago and it’s still taking up storage (check my comment below)
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Seriously you’re sitting there and saying that I made it up? That seems like a very specific detail to make up. And when did I suggest that factory resetting was a good idea? I just said that the only way to reclaim the space was to factory reset. I thought it was clear by my tone that factory resetting was ridiculous.
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“There's also a frustrating catch. Disabling Apple Intelligence doesn't free up any storage. This limitation can be incredibly annoying for those trying to reclaim precious storage space.”
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Me, my iPhone, my personal experience, I disabled Apple Intelligence 2 days ago, and it’s still there.
By this logic, I should be keeping a list of settings I want to maintain just so I can reverse the ones Apple flipped on update since Apple is too incompetent and/or untrustworthy to keep them for me.
Think about it. This device is a tool I use to, among other things, remember photos, contacts, appointments, locations, and notes for me, but I’m supposed to be OK with it not remembering my settings? Most of the complaints are really about the diminished level of trust for Apple, not how easy or difficult it is to reverse any single setting.
You may be fine cutting the $multi-trillion corporation some slack by pointing out one setting is easily changed, but some of us want that same corporation to simply do better. Maintaining user settings across an update is not a new concept, and it’s far from “rocket science.”
I highly suspect it is purgeable if you are low on space but stays if you have plenty of space. Which is how it should work. Especially if it has lots of context about you, you don’t want it immediately erasing because you turned it off - you maybe troubleshooting something or are otherwise turning it off temporarily. You want it to keep “knowing” what it knows.
And you have no data to back up your assertion that it’s intentional.
I suspect “Apple Intelligence turns back on for the likely single-digit percentage of people who have it disabled” is not a priority bug to fix. It doesn’t prevent people from using their device and “fixing the issue” takes five seconds on the user’s end.
My iPhone 15 Pro Max has never had AI turned back on after an update. Why do I see articles that says this happens after every update?
Could these people that say this happens be using beta versions for which Apple wants to test the AI? If you use beta versions I think you agree to things that normal users don’t.
Could these people that say this happens be using beta versions for which Apple wants to test the AI? If you use beta versions I think you agree to things that normal users don’t.
Ahh this theory makes sense, thank you. I will wait some time to see if anything about it changes. However the general consensus from people online is that nobody is seeing it get removed when they turn it off so I suppose it could be an oversight as well
Reading through the comments, it sounds like almost everyone is reporting that Apple Intelligence did not turn back on after the update. It sounds like an issue affecting a small proportion of people and is not default behavior. I'd be interested to know what percent of people are affected by this.
I cannot add my anecdote since I haven't updated yet to 18.3.2 and I have and want Apple Intelligence on.
I cannot add my anecdote since I haven't updated yet to 18.3.2 and I have and want Apple Intelligence on.
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What is worse then this is MacOS and the inability to turn on iCloud without all keychain passwords automatically being uploaded to iCloud.
3) People who had AI off before the update, ran the update, and found it had been turned on against their wishes.
Option 3 happened to me on the previous update of Sequoia. I'm back on Sonoma, you people can do the beta-testing for Apple's experiment if you like.
Chiming in as option 3.
I did not enable Apple Intelligence when it was opt-in.
The first update to turn it on, I turned it back off.
Every subsequent update, including 18.3.2 just now, has turned it back on and required me to go into Settings and re-disable it.
iPhone 16 Pro. I don't jailbreak or use betas. My only profile adds a CA.
I did not enable Apple Intelligence when it was opt-in.
The first update to turn it on, I turned it back off.
Every subsequent update, including 18.3.2 just now, has turned it back on and required me to go into Settings and re-disable it.
iPhone 16 Pro. I don't jailbreak or use betas. My only profile adds a CA.
Remember when Apple users used to lambast Microsoft for changing defaults with updates? Yeah, about that...
I don't really have a problem with this. They might have made changes, or added features, and I want to see if it's better for me now. I feel like the internet takes it as a personal insult and wants to make it an international incident just because a company wants you use a thing, they're proud of. Is it really that big of a deal? File a feedback.
Now I'm going to contradict myself a bit, because often a new update with change the AirPods pro Press-and-hold options for noise control to include Noise cancellation, but I only want to toggle between Adaptive and Transparency. It's annoying, but it's not that big of a deal. So, I filed a feedback. I'm sure it'll get fixed sometime in the next few years.
Now I'm going to contradict myself a bit, because often a new update with change the AirPods pro Press-and-hold options for noise control to include Noise cancellation, but I only want to toggle between Adaptive and Transparency. It's annoying, but it's not that big of a deal. So, I filed a feedback. I'm sure it'll get fixed sometime in the next few years.
The photos search processes locally. Your photos don’t go to the cloud to be examined by a third party server.
Seriously? The only entity that needs to do something here is Apple. Not you. Not me. Many of us think they need to do better.
Wanting to make excuses for Apple and reflexively challenging anyone who criticizes Apple to “buy something else” is the same kind of thinking you hear from a certain segment of the population in the US that is happy to say “you don’t like it, go live in another country”, and is equally helpful.