It could be a bug people. Especially as it doesn’t happen all the time and on every platform. It’s not like Apples software is bug free.
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PSA: iOS 18.3.2 Re-Enables Apple Intelligence If You Turned It Off
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If you read the comment I was responding to, you will see that I was responding to him admonishing me for saying it was a bug because I had no evidence, and then declaring without evidence that it was intentional.
I fully admit that I don't know for a fact that it is a bug. But knowing how Apple operates, the fact that it isn't happening to everyone, it's a feature in beta, the percentage of people who go in and change settings like this is very, very small, and the Venn diagram of "People Who Would Bother to Turn Off Apple Intelligence" and "People Who Would Post on MacRumors to Complain Because They Noticed It Was Turned Back On" is probably pretty close to a circle, I am very confident in my speculation that it is indeed a bug.
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I've had AI disabled since it was released and with every update it has stayed disabled. So no idea why these articles always state that it is turned on for everyone. But I do not expect any journalism from macrumors.
"...bug are usually very much more obscure..."
Do you... USE anything made by the computer industry? The bugs are EVERYWHERE and many are OBVIOUS (if you're not conditioned to excuse everything as "user error" like they want you to be).
This is what people say about the tens of GB of storage eaten by "system data" that does not seem to get purged for many people, including myself, even when getting low on space. I spent quite a long time reading about this on Reddit after noticing that my phone has half the free space I remembered it having recently. Nothing I did helped, so I'm apparently in the group of people who will find it wont ever go away even if I am otherwise low on space and want to install something or put music on my phone.
Yes I spend a large quantity of the day whining about Windows thank you.
Did they stop enabling BT with every update? I don't update my devices, but would be
Apple forgot that they have competition. Not everyone wants AI.
Some users want actual useful OSes without bloatware.
For example, Valve SteamOS is a very popular underdog and just wait until they support ARM64.
Valve SteamOS is both FLOSS/open source and soon it can run on any device not just gaming handhelds.
Oh and it's Linux so no one can force AI on you. Have Apple considered that?
The nVidia and AMD drivers have teh AI built in. Every game uses it for increased resolution and frame rate.
Windows is absolutely intolerable. I use it for games and nothing else. Even then, I still occasionally have to use something other than Steam and it’s pretty rapidly downhill from there.
I’m angry at Apple for going from superior to least bad option, but it’s still the least bad option in an industry of absolute endless brokenness.
It’s not that bad really. But you have to jump through some hoops to get an install that doesn’t suck. My workstation is running windows 11 LTSC. It has none of the frustrating stuff at all.
But yeah it’s the least bad option. Or it was until recent changes removed my appetite for storing anything in any US based clouds. So they’re about as good as each other now as the Mac is bloody useless without half the iCloud stuff.