I have 219gb free on my iPhone, and still disabled it.
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Save 7GB Storage Per Device by Disabling Apple Intelligence
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iPhones Georg who owns 400 iPhones is an outlier and should not be counted.
...but how many megapixels does it have?
It's been well over a decade since I've heard someone mistake storage and memory in discussing computers, but here we are.
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Future MR article headline suggestion:
"Want to save even more than 21 GB of storage? Delete Apple AI from four or more devices"
"Want to save even more than 21 GB of storage? Delete Apple AI from four or more devices"
I upgraded two 16 Pro Max phones last night and immediately turned off AI on both. I have no use for it and the features that I will not have access to are nothing I will use anyways.
I'm not sure this fixes it - just look at the comments after it changed, people are complaining about losing 21GB of space on their phone. Maybe "7GB per device" if you're insisting on adding up all the savings?
Folks at Apple must just be loving articles like this right now.
It's already available in the EU on Macs, and will be released there on iOS and iPadOS in April.
I only have an iPhone for work, so AI is already disabled. However, if I did have an iPhone disabling AI would be a no brainer!
I plan to buy a couple more devices so I can save more GB.
21 GB on a 128 GB device are quite a lot… that could be a showstopper.
By the way, I have Apple Intelligence & Siri setting on my iPhone 16 Pro Max (even if still not working being in EU), but I don’t have it on my iPad Pro M1 🤔
Are you sure it will be supported ?
By the way, I have Apple Intelligence & Siri setting on my iPhone 16 Pro Max (even if still not working being in EU), but I don’t have it on my iPad Pro M1 🤔
Are you sure it will be supported ?
Clickbait title. I have some others for next articles:
“Hitler still lives in Argentina and works in local artisan bakery”
“UFO seen frequently over NYC. Brooklyn laundry gets a lot of work with extra amount of dirty underwear.”
“Starbucks begins to sell actually tasty coffee.”
You are welcome
“Hitler still lives in Argentina and works in local artisan bakery”
“UFO seen frequently over NYC. Brooklyn laundry gets a lot of work with extra amount of dirty underwear.”
“Starbucks begins to sell actually tasty coffee.”
You are welcome
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Appreicate that you considered updating the headline, but you updated it in such a way that completely misses the point. It still absolutely reads like it is 21gb PER DEVICE. I think from the number of comments you are getting about this that it is abundantly clear it is a poor headline...
21gb is completely arbitrary, created by the headline writer.
The only figure that is real is 7gb per device.
It isn't 21gb. It is 7gb per device. The headline writer assumes you "might have" three devices, and 7 per device times three devices is 21.
So yeah, you'll save 7gb.
That doesn’t really help. It still comes across as being 21 GB per device. I saw the article only after the title change and still read it that way. The number in the title needs to be 7 GB. It doesn’t make sense to sum up storage savings across multiple devices.
This has been the trend lately here. The internet continues to move towards video and social platforms so places like MR must be feeling the pressure to keep eyeballs--especially when the news cycle is pretty slow these days.
It isn't any better; it’s 7GB. A better headline would be “Save 7 GB on each of your devices by turning it off.”
Would be nice to have a way to permanently disable this. In the meantime, I will keep turning it off every time I update.
The unintended consequence is that if you want this disabled, you can't have auto updates enabled, or you may not know to turn it off.
The unintended consequence is that if you want this disabled, you can't have auto updates enabled, or you may not know to turn it off.
super misleading headline that adds to hysteria
people are reading this as apple intelligence takes up 21GB on a single device
it doesn't even take up 7 GB as the article claims
people are reading this as apple intelligence takes up 21GB on a single device
it doesn't even take up 7 GB as the article claims
