Apple Intelligence

“Private Cloud Compute goes to great lengths to prove it can't violate your privacy.”

“Because Apple sells machines which can not have their disk upgraded and start at just 256 GB.”

“The exciting thing about Apple Intelligence is the prospect of writing apps with the assumption that it exists on everyone's computer.”

“If they wanna fill roughly 10% of your usable space with stuff you don't really use, with option to remove, you'd be mad too.”

“It really is just an arbitrary AI model, since I've had Siri for a decade and not needed whatever this extra 13GB model is.”

“were moved out of the global siri checkbox and enabled by default, and now require you to use screen time content restrictions”

“So exactly the same problem as Apple Intelligence. Whether you consider it useful is up to you.”

“if you don't want to use Apple Intelligence, you don't need to”

“This support doc describes ~10 separate settings, and still doesn't provide any way to turn off certain AI features”

“22.8G as quoted in the article is about 10% of the available space and it is something that cannot be offloaded to external disk.”

“You can’t turn it off anymore globally but Apple provides the user the ability to block, not turn off, some parts of it.”

“What Apple is doing with AI today is exactly the same formula as some of the worst stuff Microsoft put out back then.”

“Apple's assumption seems to be that the only reason you'd want to turn the LLM features off as a consumer is that you're a parent”

“ask stock ChatGPT when your next dentist appointment is. It can’t but Siri AI can.”

“Siri is pretty damn good now, with safe access the data I kinda wish could be accessed safely by an assistant.”

“It's great that you can turn all this off but why is it tucked away in Screen Time of all places?”

“It allows me to save money by calling a model on the users device”

“Apple intelligence is listed as 29 GB in the Storage settings.”

“it's a marketing term for a handful of disparate features that they are applying everywhere.”

“They are offering useful things ChatGPT cannot offer unless they write an "everything app".”

“otherwise it will feel like Apple Intelligence with a just a privacy-polished frontend for Gemini”

“It does look interesting enough for me to try it out before disabling Apple Intelligence again.”

“All the iPhone 16/Pro owners have been waiting for Apple Intelligence features announced from that WWDC 2 years ago.”

“Most of the stuff shown was already open source and had been achieved under 16GB of ram so it is timely.”

“The native Apple Intelligence works well for smaller context windows and text only.”

“I'm becoming more bullish on just using the free tokens we get from our apple devices.”

“imho mostly useless AI - to great praise for the positive privacy ramifications of on-device”

“it'll all run on your device, instead of siphoning off your data to the provider”

“It hasn't nagged me once to turn it or Siri on, and it isn't mandatory.”

“I can turn off the latter and never see anything about it again”

“Being able to search photos with queries like "show me photos of me and teeray" is pretty useful.”

“They could have shipped an agentic AI that actually automated your computer instead of summarizing your notifications.”

“Apple's (albeit flawed and delayed) attempt to revitalize the Siri branding under their Apple Intelligence marketing”

“they sold a phone with features that still haven't shipped and the promise that Apple Intelligence would come in two months”

“eliminates the tedious process of manually transferring event details from posters”

“Apple's most interesting value proposition is running local inference with big privacy promises.”

“eliminates the tedious process of manually transferring event details”

“it has an easy to find off switch for customers who don't care for it”

“revealing a platform still in its early stages rather than a finished product”

“They did botch the launch by announcing the Apple Intelligence features before they are ready”