Hundred of milions of people will do fine with 128Gb of storage on a phone if they use and pay for cloud services.
I'm using less than 57Gb on my phone. And yes I have about 150Gb of photos in iCloud Photo Library.
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Save 7GB Storage Per Device by Disabling Apple Intelligence
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Hundred of milions of people will do fine with 128Gb of storage on a phone if they use and pay for cloud services.
I'm using less than 57Gb on my phone. And yes I have about 150Gb of photos in iCloud Photo Library.
I love Apple’s focus on privacy with AI, unlike the other options that harvest so much intimate info about users. 7 GB is nothing. One can also delete built-in apps to save even more space. Delete Messages, Photos, etc and stop using those features and save tons of space! Would that make any sense?
Keep marching towards the future and use the technology you’ve already paid for!!
Keep marching towards the future and use the technology you’ve already paid for!!
Agreed. They really spun the headline for that one.
For those that can't be bothered to read the article (or the original article), it states:
How does that even translate into "73% of iPhone Owners Say 'No Thanks' to Apple Intelligence"? One can think AI adds little to no value, but still be willing to use it. I'm probably in that camp. I have Apple Intelligence turned on. Do I find it super valuable? Not really. Do I want to turn it off because of that? No, some features are nice.
And why did they leave Samsung out of the headline? I mean, if their narrative was truly about no one wanting artificial intelligence, wouldn't 87% have been a better number to use? Gotta love sensationalism.
Why buy a bit of storage when you can rent it in perpetuity instead (while handing over all your data)?
It does highlight why they use such small base storage -- either pay several times market value for more storage, or pay us to do it every month. All about ever-increasing revenues.
Enabling beta functionality by default is not a good call.
Lose the beta label or let people opt-in.
Lose the beta label or let people opt-in.
This isn’t directed at you, but figure it’s as good of a place to bring it up as any.Why buy a bit of storage when you can rent it in perpetuity instead (while handing over all your data)?
It does highlight why they use such small base storage -- either pay several times market value for more storage, or pay us to do it every month. All about ever-increasing revenues.
I often see people blaming Tim Cook for the cost of upgrading Mac/phone storage and I laugh because people have been complaining about the cost of Apple’s storage/RAM upgrades for over twenty years now. I came across this thread a few days ago - from 2005:
Steve is rolling in his… oh wait 🤣
I realize you were going for the humorous "shot", but the situation isn't the same
Back then you could source and install your own RAM on the machines, so Apple charging whatever they did made no difference
I really wish we could all attempt to spend less time trying to "score points" on "the other guys" on the forum
I include myself in this
It's a bit of a 2025 resolution of mine -- to try to make online dialogue a little bit more kind and fun and forgiving
Honestly wasn’t trying to score points but see how it could come off that way. Here’s to better dialogue in 2025!
Hear Hear! I appreciate you
I've honestly really been enjoying engaging with you (and some others) who I have disagreements with, but also points of consensus! It's great!
Maybe that headline was made using Apple Intelligence 😆
I'm not anti-AI, but I'm not really using any Apple Intelligence features directly. Tried out Image Playground and Genmoji (both work the same way), and they are far toooooo slow to be useful on my M1 Air. Pretty accurate results, though.
As for writing tools, I just don't want my computer rewriting my carefully-crafted text.
And for re/search, I'll probably start using the built-in ChatGPT support more as time goes on, especially since Google is becoming one big banner-ad billboard with every search.
As for writing tools, I just don't want my computer rewriting my carefully-crafted text.
And for re/search, I'll probably start using the built-in ChatGPT support more as time goes on, especially since Google is becoming one big banner-ad billboard with every search.
It's kinda of sad the cleanup feature wasn't made available on previous devices since it doesn't need apple intelligence .. I'd rly like to have it on my 13 pro
You don’t lose clean up when turning off AI, I did this and the tool still works.
Interesting. My Mac 👇 came with 15.2 and with Apple Intelligence disabled. However, when I upgraded to 15.3 yesterday Apple Intelligence had been enabled. Thankfully, it's easy to disable. Just spitballing here (hopefully, someone more knowledgeable will see this), but was that due to the fact I started with 15.2? 🤷♂️
If you have the space why bother to do this? What actual difference does it make?
I bought a pick up truck last month, but i always make sure im carrying nothing in it so i have lots of space to carry things. But as soon as i carry something i take it out again. Cant have any of that space getting used for putting things in no sir-ree.
I had it off on on my devices on 15.2, and it was turned on in 15.3. I had to turn if off on all of them.
Because I don’t think apps like Twitter or Discord should be taking up literally 15-20GB each.
Convinced that Apple Intelligence is just I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.E.N.C.E. repurposed.
Also caps lock on iPhone is really not caps lock. Reverts to lower case every time when selecting ‘123’ - and then when in numbers mode on the keyboard, tapping the all caps ‘ABC’ take you to lowercase keyboard.
Oh Apple, how far you have fallen from the SJ tree.
Also caps lock on iPhone is really not caps lock. Reverts to lower case every time when selecting ‘123’ - and then when in numbers mode on the keyboard, tapping the all caps ‘ABC’ take you to lowercase keyboard.
Oh Apple, how far you have fallen from the SJ tree.