New iOS Update Re-Enables Apple Intelligence For Users Who Had Turned It Off 54
Apple's latest iOS 18.3.2 update is automatically re-enabling its Apple Intelligence feature even for users who previously disabled it, adding to mounting concerns about the company's AI strategy.
The update presents a splash screen with no option except to tap "Continue," which activates the feature. Users must then manually disable it through settings, with the AI consuming up to 7GB of storage space. This forced activation comes amid broader troubles with Apple's AI initiatives.
The update presents a splash screen with no option except to tap "Continue," which activates the feature. Users must then manually disable it through settings, with the AI consuming up to 7GB of storage space. This forced activation comes amid broader troubles with Apple's AI initiatives.
Re: Oxymoron (Score:2)
If I want to send Apple Intelligence a SIGABRT then damn it, I will!
Re: Why is this news? (Score:5, Insightful)
Because of the hypocrisy of stating they are the "better choice", worth paying a premium for, and then processing to retain the "I paid a premium as a symbol of status" as the only real differentiator.
Re: Why is this news? (Score:1)
*proceeding
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When autocorrect does work right, its time to reset it. It learns from how you use your phone and type. If you accept a misspelling, it learns, and will continue to make that mistake for you.
Having things like Grammarly installed or using other AI only complicates things.
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Re: Why is this news? (Score:5, Informative)
as the only real differentiator
That's not the only differentiator. They also stayed in China to help them oppress their people, prevent sideloading everywhere not forced to permit it by law in order to oppress their customers, comply maliciously with court orders for the same reason, don't permit competing browser engines to run on your hardware which they see as their hardware...
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Oh, fuck china.
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Oh, fuck china.
1) GLWT
2) Treating China that way is treating the Chinese people that way, and there are a lot of them.
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1). No idea what GLWT means.
2). If the Chinese people can't be bothered to fix their govt, I don't see why anyone else should.
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Why are you deep-throating the boot? Disclose for us how much Apple stock you own.
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About $250K-$300K worth. I haven't looked in a while.
But it is irrelevant. I'd make the same comment about a similar incident with Google, and I don't own any of their stock.
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But every feature is not treated thusly.
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Every feature is not treated thusly yet.
Sometimes the feature just goes away when you update, like being able to block caller ID for outgoing calls by default.
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Right.
In the meantime, you'll bitch about what hasn't happened yet, and may never happen.
Got it.
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Solution to the horrendous problem reported: turn it back off.
Oh! The humanity!!!!!!!
I tend to agree; however, being stuck with the loss of 7GB of storage for something that you don't want and will never use does kinda suck.
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Solution to the horrendous problem reported: turn it back off.
Oh! The humanity!!!!!!!
I tend to agree; however, being stuck with the loss of 7GB of storage for something that you don't want and will never use does kinda suck.
Especially for those with 128GB iPhones. My daughter's iPhone had a horrendous storage leak that would over a few weeks gobble up over 20GB that somehow completely disappeared upon reboot. Adding an additional 7GB on top of that leak would be even more maddening. Our solution was to buy a new iPhone, so Apple won that battle.
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Our solution was to buy a new iPhone, so Apple won that battle.
That's the well-known final step of Apple device troubleshooting: When all else fails, buy a new one.
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You're not "stuck" with it. Just turn it off.
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Turning it off does not release the storage space. The 7 GB turned out to be about 14 when a more accurate memory accounting turned up. I reclaimed far more than expected, about 30 GB, when I reverted to Sonoma, the previous AI free OS. Some of that was probably old updates and not AI related.
How much more the apps bloated to implement the AI functionality is another unknown and probably accounts for some of that too.
Re:Why is this news? (Score:5, Informative)
It IS a wrong thing to do. People turned the feature off for a reason. Turning it back on them for them is an act of direct disobedience. It shows utter disrespect for the end user and, depending on details, may be compromising their privacy in ways that the specifically chose Apple products in order to avoid.
Apple knew what the right behavior was here and deliberately chose to reject it in an effort to push their users around the same way Microsoft does!
It's a big deal, Apple is in the wrong.
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Apple knows what they are doing. And they know their fan base (mostly liberals).
We voted for $30 car license tabs. On numerous occasions. Every time the initiative passed, our legislature came back and said, "No. This isn't what you wanted. You must have misunderstood." And then another vote for $30 tabs. "No. You're still wrong. You are imagining that this is what you want. But it's not."
Rinse and repeat until the electorate just sits there with a stoned look, saying "Please. Take my money."
Yeah, the ea
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Liberals are 17% more likely to be Apple users, but is that because Tim Apple is gay, or because conservatives can't afford iDevices while they live on blue-state-provided welfare?
Re: Why is this news? (Score:4, Informative)
Unfortunately turning it off (over and over again after every update) doesnâ(TM)t free up the 7-8GB of storage. If your device is running out of room, it will apparently get deleted to free up space, but in the meantime it makes people think they have less storage space, making them think about buying a new device sooner than they would have.
again, whether we own stuff in turmoil (Score:3)
Just another scheme (Score:2)
Like Google's Android ecosystem or Amazon's Echo ecosystem, it's all just another scheme to hoover up as much data about you as they can so they can sell it.
There isn't really any alternative at this juncture other than to abandon the convenience of having these tech toys. All the big companies are doing it.
Enough is enough (Score:3)
Fire everyone who approved or implemented this. Even those only tangentially related.
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Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked have been sacked.
macOS does respect the choice (Score:2)
The latest macOS update (15.3.2) did not turn on AI (unlike 15.3.1 which did). Not sure if I like the inconsistency or not. I'll ask Siri... sigh.
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It did turn it back on for me - perhaps your system is different somehow
Re: macOS does respect the choice (Score:2)
It's not inconsistency, you just "won" the apple lottery. Not everyone is going to get the setting turned back on. Apple is most likely doing a/b testing with this "feature"
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No, they aren't. You do not do a/b testing on a live production build rolled out worldwide. And if you were going to do it, you would do it with people who already have the feature turned on and use it, otherwise the gathered data is useless.
Apple used to stand for stability (Score:1)
I went with Apple smartphones because of expectation of long support and feature stability. Apple gets my money because so far they left me alone.
New iOS Update Re-Enables Apple Intelligence ... (Score:1)
No, you must have AI spyware--on everything! (Score:2)
User-Hostile Defaults (Score:2)
Change your Siri voice to keep it disabled. (Score:5, Interesting)
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That's idiotic in itself. I live in the USA, but just for novelty's sake, I have my car's GPS to use an Australian accent.
I'm sure there's a way Apple could have Siri understand US English but voice UK English. If they can't do that, that is just technical incompetence and shows that their AI doesn't reflect real-world requirements.
Didn’t on mine (Score:1)
I have to ask (Score:2)
Have they tried turning it on and off again?
mulitple revenue streams are conflict of interest (Score:2)
Of course you can make more money doing it this way and this is why it should be outlawed, because if some do it, that forces everyone to do it.