Mandatory Apple Intelligence
That show of respect for its customers may change with iOS/macOS 27. Reports suggest that, at least in the first beta, Apple Intelligence is mandatory[…]
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“So what’s the problem?”, you might ask. Apple’s AI takes up several gigabytes of storage and leaves less headroom for RAM.
Those are small inconveniences, however, compared to my biggest gripe with Siri AI: It’s completely ruined Spotlight.
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The new Siri-first interface that presumes that if you’re searching for anything but an app or file, you must want Siri to feed you a few links of Apple Intelligence’s choosing.
Getting to a web search from a Spotlight query now requires multiple taps: Type your query, tap “Show Results” (careful: hitting enter will trigger Siri to craft a response, eliminating the possibility of seeing any actual Spotlight content), tap on “Show More” next to the list of Siri-surfaced web results, scroll down until you see Search Google (or whatever engine you have set as your default), then tap that.
Apple Intelligence used to be opt-in, but now it seems that you can’t even opt out. I had previously mentioned the removal of the switch in the context of hypocrisy, but it seems there are enough issues here for it to warrant its own post. Also, I had previously written that the switch was combined with Siri, meaning that you could turn off Apple Intelligence if you turned off Siri, too. I now doubt that’s the case.
I’m thinking that asking for a switch to turn of “Apple Intelligence” systemwide is like asking for a switch to turn off Spotlight.
Indeed, we can turn off Spotlight, both the indexing (except, alas, for APFS Time Machine volumes) and the UI, and I think that’s a good thing.
Previously:
- Apple Intelligence in appleOS 27
- No Siri AI in EU
- Chrome’s Huge weights.bin File
- Spotlight Indexing Running Wild
- Invasive Spotlight Indexing
- Bug Opted Users Back In to Sharing Siri Recordings
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They started doing this a few years ago primarily on the Watch.
They have a fancy new feature and by god you are going to use it because we're taking away what you were already using.
That's why we have three different ways to open the "Smart Stack" and none for the Dock and one for the most important feature, notifications.
Now they're doing it on the phone. They want the world to know they finally launched New Siri so they are putting it quite literally front and center, like it or not.
>That's why we have three different ways to open the "Smart Stack" and none for the Dock....
There's Control-F3 to move focus to the Dock, after which arrow keys and Spacebar can be used to navigate and select. Or is that different than opening the Dock?
@NaOH bart is talking about watchOS, where the justification for dropping support for older hardware is that it can’t run Siri AI.
Is it no longer possible to disable Siri? That was an independent toggle of Apple quote unquote “Intelligence”.
