New iOS Update Re-Enables Apple Intelligence For Users Who Had Turned It Off
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/03/22/1125225/new-ios-update-re-enables-apple-intelligence-for-users-who-had-turned-it-off
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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 [2]broader troubles with Apple's AI initiatives .
[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2025/03/11/ios-18-3-2-apple-intelligence-auto-on/
[2] https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/03/21/1114253/hey-siri-what-month-is-it
Why is this news? (Score:1, Informative)
Even the absolutely most trivial "potential malfeasance" from Apple is treated like some kind of unholy crime against humanity, that's why.
Solution to the horrendous problem reported: turn it back off.
Oh! The humanity!!!!!!!
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
Re: Why is this news? (Score:1)
I now, rite? 2025 an sill canot eat it fucking comments on /.
Re: Why is this news? (Score:2)
* edict commas on /.
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> 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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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.
Re: Why is this news? (Score:2)
Because they are misleading you? Because they are forcing surveillance on dumb lazy apple fuckers?
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If every feature and setting was handled this way when an update came down it would be like having to set up your phone from scratch every time, which would be far from absolutely most trivial.
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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.
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.
Re: Why is this news? (Score:3, Insightful)
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)
"Eh, that's okay. It's not like it's your computer anyway." [presumed all companies now]
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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fire up the ovens baking jobs tonight,
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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I just updated iOS to 18.3.2 and it did not change any of my configurations. This issue must be localized to specific iPhone models.
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Siri : Tuesday.
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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)
In my case, there were no attempts to enable any functionality that I had disabled with this update. However, I have old iPhone and outright disabled Siri.
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)
What "Putting the User First" looks like in the real world.
No, you must have AI spyware--on everything! (Score:2)
How else will your data get to our servers--unless you are running "AI"
User-Hostile Defaults (Score:2)
The whoi user-hostile/revenue enhancing defaults thing isn't exactly new, but it certainly seems to be on an uptick now. As well as re-setting these defaults on updates. Roku and Plex are particularly and increasingly guilty of this as well, and I'm sure others.
Change your Siri voice to keep it disabled. (Score:3)
Checked my phone and itâ(TM)s not enabled. But I see a message: Applie Intelligence requires that iPhone and Siri are set to use the same language My Siri was set to use a British voice. The phone is English US., Siri is English UK.
Re: Oxymoron (Score:2)
If I want to send Apple Intelligence a SIGABRT then damn it, I will!