iOS 18.3, macOS 15.3 updates switch to enabling Apple Intelligence by default
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Tried it myself. Found it either useless or unreliable. turned it off. Guess everyone is looking to juice their "user" number for their Ai features. I won't bother till it actually does things I find useful.
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All of the “home” solutions…Alexa, Siri, Google…are ridiculously stupid.
Just today, after asking Alexa (we have a houseful) what the temp was, Alexa asked me if ”he” had responded from the correct place.
When I replied “Is this Mars?”, the ensuing meltdown…that ran for NEARLY A MINUTE had my wife and I laughing so hard we cried.
Once, we asked for “music to fuck by” and got Nine Inch Nails “Fuck Me Like An Animal” as a response. Given that we are pushing 70, it was again, unintentionally hilarious.
Just today, after asking Alexa (we have a houseful) what the temp was, Alexa asked me if ”he” had responded from the correct place.
When I replied “Is this Mars?”, the ensuing meltdown…that ran for NEARLY A MINUTE had my wife and I laughing so hard we cried.
Once, we asked for “music to fuck by” and got Nine Inch Nails “Fuck Me Like An Animal” as a response. Given that we are pushing 70, it was again, unintentionally hilarious.
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Despite my skepticism, I turned on Apple Intelligence for a few days on my iPhone. It was pointless at best, but otherwise it was just actively un-useful. The “summaries” in my inbox email list were awful — I always had to click into the email to see what the message was really saying. Turned it off and my life has improved.
So weird: Years in now and generative AI is still mostly (not entirely) a solution in search of a problem, except for very narrow purpose-built use cases like code QA.
So weird: Years in now and generative AI is still mostly (not entirely) a solution in search of a problem, except for very narrow purpose-built use cases like code QA.
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It's almost like nobody wants this stuff. I'm not kidding, I hang with a pretty broad demographic and very few of them have any interest in AI at all. In fact as it's progressed many have adopted a rather hostile view of it and are sick of it being shoved at them at every step. Myself? AI so far has provided nothing of service or value so it can go piss up a rope until it does.
Also, long live my 14 Pro Max.
Also, long live my 14 Pro Max.
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What if i already turned it off after deciding it's half baked and not ready for prime time? Is apple going to pull a microsoft overriding my preferences here? I'd prefer to turn it back on when i'm good and ready for it.
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Some where in the last 6 months Siri no longer knows how to play the "top gun soundtrack" . I instead get various versions of the: "top" "gun soundtracks"
I tried speaking slower, faster...different intonation... no dice. Had to type in the search. That still worked.
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Email summaries. Rewriting news notifications but making them wrong. Surely this is the trillion dollar problem that we've reoriented our whole energy grid around is solving?
Whats that? The entire email marketing and email provision market is worth less than $20 billion? So if "AI" scooped up the entire email marketing market and somehow replaced all email providers it wouldn't be 10% of the $300+ billion invested in AI startups and infrastructure in 2024?
Seems good.
Whats that? The entire email marketing and email provision market is worth less than $20 billion? So if "AI" scooped up the entire email marketing market and somehow replaced all email providers it wouldn't be 10% of the $300+ billion invested in AI startups and infrastructure in 2024?
Seems good.
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Voix des Airs
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This is sort of the opposite from what I would have expected since Gemini is (at least for now?) off by default on Android. At least on Pixel devices. New phone setup tells you about it but you have to turn it on if you want it.
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For the most part Apple Intelligence has been useless for me. However, on my iPad Pro (M1 chip?) the "magic eraser" or whatever they call it in the Photos.app has been super useful. I know Android has had this for awhile, but it's legit cool. Now could I do the same thing in Photoshop? Sure, but having this convenience built straight into the OS is really nice.
The other AI stuff that came with it? Mostly pointless (to me).
The other AI stuff that came with it? Mostly pointless (to me).
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Siri has been a complete unusable mess for quite some time. Refuses to play playlists instead insisting on playing something from Apple Music - which I don't subscribe to. Even when I ask for a simple song or album, half the time it plays something random. I have a Home Pod mini in the garage which controls a couple of heaters and some lights. The lights now take ~ 2 seconds to respond. It was never fast, but now is just uselessly sluggish. As soon as it gets above freezing, those lights will be mapped to a real switch.
Progress....
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ColdWetDog
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Try it on any picture with skin in it. It has hissyfits. Any skin.
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I turned off Apple Intelligence after I caught myself repeatedly eye rolling/swearing at nearly everything related to my new iPhone 16. I'm sure AI helpers will provide some value some day. That day is not today or tomorrow though.
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Google turned on Gemini in my Gmail and gives me absolutely no way to disable it or remove the button.
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Damn that's pretty much exactly my take on Siri (and other virtual assistants), stretching back over a decade.
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Didn't they get dragged enough with how bad it was during the betas? Why on earth would you default people into that? Do they have a humiliation kink?
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Forced unbaked feature uptake. This shit will be as nagging as “Enable hey siri” now after each update.
This is also a path to suck people into paying for ChatGPT for sure.
This is also a path to suck people into paying for ChatGPT for sure.
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Same here, and found the "turning it off" part scattered across too many places.
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Bad form, Apple. Even if this all worked perfectly as designed, I still wouldn’t be turning it on, but this is a pretty dirty move to change it to opt-out in order to update your phone. Way to further erode my interest in using this just so you can juice your AI adoption numbers for the bellends that are pushing this so hard.
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Apple Intelligence caused Okta verification requests to be so incredibly slow (multiple minutes) to get to me that I disabled it. I tried turning off AI on just Okta and it didn't seem to make a difference. That combined with basically zero other use case for it, I disabled AI entirely, Okta requests went back to being nearly instant, and I haven't missed it.
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If you're using Google Workspace for Business, Google added Gemini to all users, and is raising plans by $2/user/month, last Wednesday, 1/15. No warning, no emails to admin, just some blog posts.
As a Google Workspace admin, I wasn't able to turn it off, as that was initially Enterprise-plan only. I wrote into support, and they finally enabled the way to disable it on Monday.
https://workspace.google.com/blog/product-announcements/empowering-businesses-with-ai
https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2025/01/expanding-google-ai-to-more-of-google-workspace.html
How to turn it off (now works for Business plans, not just Enterprise):
https://support.google.com/a/answer...-1152726039&fl=1&sjid=14350287173123421848-NC
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You're assuming it's not incorrectly summarizing as bullshit an actually important email.
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THIS!
Helped my son build his first Gaming PC for Xmas. Spent several days running into shit I didn't want on there, and having to use Kagi to figure out how to disable and remove it (Co-pilot, various news feeds and shit that function like advertising, MS Edge, Logitech nag window dll, etc.). Every minute of that I'm telling myself "This is why I buy a Mac".
Now, less than 1 month later I see Apple copying MS bullshit by packing in shitty fucking software I don't want (in 15.2 it downloads all the models even if you never turn it on, to the tune of ~10GB), and making its removal damn near impossible (Need to disable SIP, amongst other things, otherwise I won't let you delete most of the files). Hell, there is a permanent red badge in System Settings trying to entice me into activating it for the first time.
How long before we start seeing tutorials on how to remove Apple installed bloatware like we have for every version of windows since the dawn of the Wintel era?
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The scattering is a feature because Apple is now at a point where they don’t want you to turn it off. This is by design.
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