iOS 18.3 disables controversial, AI-generated news app notifications
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I guess that if it needs to be turned off with Siri, that's it, no Siri for me.
This is a major bummer for those that need Siri for accessibility reasons, and I really don't understand how this is cheaper and better than pre-LLM, or no-LLM purpose-built Siri.
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“Your Apple device is too basic, Jack…no Apple Intelligence for you!”
SE 2022 and basic iPad…
SE 2022 and basic iPad…
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Is Siri still required to be turned on to use CarPlay? If so, the chain of requirements is getting quite annoying.
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One quick solution is to switch to Canadian or Irish English as someone else said. Then no Intelligence. Easier than never updating. I would guess future updates do not override your preference. Generally they don’t override your settings with each minor update. This isn’t Windows.
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This is not correct. Turning off Apple Intelligence disables the new rainbow-glow Siri interface, but old Siri remains available as ever.
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For better or worse, as long as my 12 Pro continues to work well, I doubt I’ll replace it, so not an issue for me. (The fact that I am cheap may also be a factor.) But the AI features are not an inducement to upgrade - perhaps the reverse.
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I’ve been wanting this for a very long time now. Having only 2 readily available, mainstream options (iOS and Android) is awful IMO. I don’t like either company when it comes to Apple and Google, though I admit I do hate Google more with their being an ad company and all the data they harvest and sell.
That said, if you’re willing and have the tech knowledge necessary, you can look into the various de-Googled phone operating systems that are out there. I just recently started testing a phone with GrapheneOS on it. It even allows you to either not install Google Play Services, or install a sandboxed version.
Haven’t used it enough yet to decide if I’ll be jumping ship from my iPhone, but I’m hoping that will end up being the case. I really don’t want to support either Google or Apple anymore.
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For me the iOS update was ~900+ MB. So I guess to answer your first question... approximately 1.
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And look at that sweet 3gb ram hit:
View: https://www.reddit.com/r/iPadPro/comments/1flgh5v/8_gb_of_ram_is_atrocious_with_apple_intelligence/
chat.openai.com or gemini.google.com does what I need not this locally hosted trash.
Seems like more of an excuse to make us upgrade and stop providing security updates/os support to older SKUs.
Sorry if you have a 8gb ram Macbook with good battery life and it was working perfectly fine for you.
But heres the thing for me it's STILL a problem at 24 GB ram for my bioinformatic and video editing workflows. You know those sort of jobs that Apple likes to sell laptops for doing.
Hopefully when I disable this it actually reduces the ram overhead. Not keep something going.
View: https://www.reddit.com/r/iPadPro/comments/1flgh5v/8_gb_of_ram_is_atrocious_with_apple_intelligence/
chat.openai.com or gemini.google.com does what I need not this locally hosted trash.
Seems like more of an excuse to make us upgrade and stop providing security updates/os support to older SKUs.
Sorry if you have a 8gb ram Macbook with good battery life and it was working perfectly fine for you.
But heres the thing for me it's STILL a problem at 24 GB ram for my bioinformatic and video editing workflows. You know those sort of jobs that Apple likes to sell laptops for doing.
Hopefully when I disable this it actually reduces the ram overhead. Not keep something going.
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They didn't specifically set out to summarise headlines, it's just generic summarising of app notifications... some of which end up being notifications from news apps. We can definitely argue that this issue should have been thought about by Apple beforehand (or at least detected in beta), but I'm not sure it's right to frame it as them having AI headlines as a goal.
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Nobody asked for Apple AI. Many asked for better software quality. Apple has become an arrogant company with its head in the clouds.
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7-8 GB right now. That figure will go up as Apple adds more AI features. 64 GB of storage capacity isn’t going to work for long. And, depending on what else you have on your device, maybe 128 GB won’t be enough either. See the beauty in all of this for Apple? You’ll have to purchase more expensive devices with added storage… just so you can turn off a useless AI feature that you never wanted in the first place while it continues to eat more space on your SSD with each new update.
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I’m rocking the British chick on mine. Funny such a minor setting disables it.
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Let us know when you find out. But, as of right now, I’d advise anyone with an iPhone 16 series or an iPhone Pro or Pro Max to trade in their phone for a 15 or 15 Plus. And never install iOS 18.
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Just replacing the (100% warranted) sarcasm from the previous page with a level of subtlety more befitting this abomination of an update...
And in case the good folks at Apple still haven't gotten the message: fuck opt-out, and fuck the lot of you for foisting shit like this on your unsuspecting users.
And in case the good folks at Apple still haven't gotten the message: fuck opt-out, and fuck the lot of you for foisting shit like this on your unsuspecting users.
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I'm considering going back to a previous Apple phone that "wont run" AI. Knowing my luck they will figure out how to get it working on that phone in the next update.
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Can I ge a secure sign in here. Wish some of the ex-dead presidents' would have pardoned Snowbazz. lol....
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No device supporting Apple Intelligence shipped with less than 128GB of storage.
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I don’t understand this. The majority of Apple Intelligence features are entirely on-device and have no privacy implications.Just replacing the (100% warranted) sarcasm from the previous page with a level of subtlety more befitting this abomination of an update...
And in case the good folks at Apple still haven't gotten the message: fuck opt-out, and fuck the lot of you for foisting shit like this on your unsuspecting users.
For the extremely few that call out to a server, Private Cloud Compute is used, and not even Apple has access to the data there (which can be verified as Apple provides the binaries).
And it’s definitely not like Samsung or the ilk, you won’t suddenly be charged for Apple Intelligence features separately.
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they prob ask Apple Intelligence, which tells them that no-one is turning it off!
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I don't have an iPhone 15 Pro / 16 series, but I believe you can turn it off with a single toggle.
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I kind of burned out after years of WebOS followed by Windows Phone. But good luck.
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Again for the Apple fanboys. Apple never CARED about privacy. It was just their marketing strategy... that can and did change as soon as it was convenient ad/or required to keep the investors happy.
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I find the summaries sometimes useful and often hilarious. So much so that they cheer me up. So that's a win.
Because this partly offsets the fury I feel when I say "Hey Siri play BBC news" and it says "sure here are some articles about BBC news I found on the web" or when it says "would you like me to use ChatGPT for that". I get suckered in, have to press "use CHATGPT" because it doesn't understand the words and then it says to me "hmm ChatGPT isn't available right now".
Aaaaaaaagggggghhhhhhh
Because this partly offsets the fury I feel when I say "Hey Siri play BBC news" and it says "sure here are some articles about BBC news I found on the web" or when it says "would you like me to use ChatGPT for that". I get suckered in, have to press "use CHATGPT" because it doesn't understand the words and then it says to me "hmm ChatGPT isn't available right now".
Aaaaaaaagggggghhhhhhh
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Apparently I'm still safe because "Apple intelligence is currently not available in your country". On 18.2.1 at least. I wonder if they still install all the crap for it.
My apple computers are even more safely 1-2 major OS versions behind.
My apple computers are even more safely 1-2 major OS versions behind.
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Unless you're the hit wireless technology Bluetooth®, in which case, you will always magically be enabled after each minor update.
It wasn't enough that Apple removed headphone jacks from all iOS & iPadOS devices (but not Macs because wired headphones are still very common and useful) to "encourage" AirPods sales but for the handful of people who actively choose to disable BT, Apple toggle it back on, likely in an effort to enhance the Find My network.
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I have two phones with Siri switched off and CarPlay works in every car I get in.
I don't know if it has anything to do with the fact I plug them via cable, never BT.
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I don't understand why I'd want a notification summary. Either a notification is important enough that I want to see it individually, or it shouldn't have been sent.
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The summary is for when you get an overly long notification or get multiple notifications from the same app. It won’t show a summary for single short (typical) notifications.
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The Nomad line was excellent. I had a little grey one that was nearly perfect. If only Creative added a squircle, they may have stuck around.
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