How can I disable Apple Intelligence on my iPhone?

This is the straw that broke the camels back. Only hard thing is finding an alternative is nearly impossible since every phone producer is adding AI features..

Might be time to return to the flip phone.

Same here. I don’t want AI embedded in my phone. It’s huge privacy issue also it’s highly unethical and harmful technology. Turned my system updates off and no longer upgrading my Apple devices even though I planned for new iPhone this year.

I do not want AI on my phone

When I bought this phone, I was taught I must receive updates to keep the phone functioning properly.

I had a flip phone when I was told it would no longer function because the company would stop all contact with my phone… some kind of tech advancement would require an up graded phone to be operational.

I don’t want this AI function on my phone. I also don’t want to loose anything I had already.

I request the opportunity to have the AI program, (all the parts associated that were added for the AI to operate) removed.

Thank you for your help with this.

You all try to tell us all that AI is a good thing. You talk about Siri and other options already in the iOS. But until now we could disable them. If AI of so good why can we not opt out of it? I want AI out of my data. I can search on my own. I do not need AI. Unit now I have been able to disable these things. Same with the new televisions. They will be learning your viewing habits. I do not want that. If AI was so good we could opt out of it. You kids that want AI telling you what you like can have it. The rest of us that already know what we like will opt out.

Maybe I’m late to the party, however, I no longer trust Apple and theirupdates that turn on everything that I specifically turned off… I don’t want to store your content that i do t want to save and pay for it!

Youre delusional about AI. You say “it’s not as bad as you think”. Garbage. You think you’re being lied to now…about everything? AI will escalate that to no end. That’s my opinion and apparently there are MANY people that agree with me. But the real issue is every lousy phone manufacturer will not allow users to move on without it. Free choice? I think not! Either make a phone without it or the intelligent people will all switch to flip phones. Everyone else can give up their freedoms and protections for convenience. Good luck.

wizardi3 wrote:

I do not want AI on my phone can I opt out

No.

I understand it is part of an upcoming update.

It is already there. Maybe not in the traditional sense – of computers doing human-level, symbolic reasoning (like researchers originally thought was the goal), but you see it in things like

• Siri's voice recognition
• The Photo app grouping together related photos, and music, on its own, to create Moments
• Map apps learning where you go frequently, and suggesting destinations for you in widget displays
• Optimized charging, where the phone learns your use patterns so as to delay charging until the last moment

Quite aside from whatever iOS and the iPhone are doing, a lot of companies like Google and social media outfits are mining whatever data they can collect about you. If you wonder why it seems like every store in the world requires a "loyalty card" to get discounts, and is trying to push you to use their app, it's because they also want to collect, and crunch, data about you.

Banks use AI, too – if you have a credit card from a major issuer, they probably have "AI" programs running on their computers that look for unusual patterns of activity and suspend cards accordingly.

In iOS, I'm sure there are many features or settings you don't need or use. When and if Apple includes better AI in the next release, you cannot pick and choose what parts of iOS you want to be downloaded to your phone. You get whatever Apple decides we all get. Whether you use those features is up to you, however.

I dont want AI and have never used siri on any of my devices

Yurr2020 wrote:

Same here. I don’t want AI embedded in my phone. It’s huge privacy issue also it’s highly unethical and harmful technology. Turned my system updates off and no longer upgrading my Apple devices even though I planned for new iPhone this year.

That ship sailed.

AI already exists on and is in widespread use on current Apple iPhone, and in many other places.

Is there hype around AI? Yes. Immense hype.

Is there grift and fraud and misuse and inappropriate usage? Sure.

Are there privacy concerns here? Yes. Apple has indicated what they plan to do about that. Other AI vendors, not so much.

Is AI useful? In various places, yes, absolutely. It’s already useful. In other places, AI is flaming garbage. AI-generated websites are word spewage. AI-based chat is often able to answer common questions , unfortunately it is also able to completely fail at the same task.

Can you get a phone without using AI? Any phone? Um, maybe. Wouldn’t surprise me to find AI embedded in even feature phones in the baseband.

What to do? Maybe focus on privacy regulations with your representatives? AI-related litigation is already underway, and there will be more. Regulations here can either be headed toward betterment, or toward worseitude.

TL;DR: we’re already soaking in AI.

With respect to this: Apple Intelligence Preview - Apple

I suspect that the features will be there – in phones and versions of iOS that support them – but that you will not be forced to use them.

There will be many people who do use them, so I don't think that by boycotting them yourself, you'll be able to avoid the impact that these features (and others like them) will have on society.

I hear the frustration companies going in a different direction than you want. But AI is everywhere, and it's not as "bad" as many want to believe it to be.

AI has been on your phone since the early iPhones, when Siri was introduced. It's a key part of how a lot of tech functions, and I think the distrust comes from a place of not understanding how it works.

At the heart of AI, is really just a lot of statistics, probability, calculus, and linear algebra. It's largely a game of guessing probabilities by using probability distribution functions through what we call maximum likelihood estimators. Through that, we can build algorithms that pick the option with the highest probability of what you are looking for, and do that over and over for every number, character, ect. to get to the "answer" presented to you.

AI can benefit almost anyone willing to learn how to use it. People love to hate on how bad chatGPT can be, but ignore how good it can be as well. For example, I can't always rely on it to give me the correct solution (it makes silly math errors too often) but it will give me the steps, allowing me to learn on my time without relying on a TA or office hours. My professor tells us to use it, because we had to learn an entire high level stats book in 5 weeks. It's not about it doing the work for me, it's about understanding the correct steps, and then being able to ask follow up questions. The information is 95% accurate imo. I would have been able to understand the content in undergrad so much better. Thankfully I have it in grad school.

This isn't some random black box voodoo witch craft thing designed to take over your life. It's just a guessing game as to finding what information your looking for. For those in the white collar work force, you will need to either learn it or get left behind. Gen Z is growing up with these tools and when you can do three times as much work in an 8 hour work day, you better believe the boss is going to pick them over you. And yes, I have friends who have increased productivity that much with chatGPT.

Iwantanswersnowforever wrote:

Yea. Like this “current” technology really has our best interests in mind.

Apple certainly wants to continue to profit from device sales and subscriptions, certainly.

But again, look at what Apple specifically writes about privacy.

As for “Artificial Intelligence” in the form of machine learning (ML), that’s already in endemic usage, including in the camera image processing, photo facial and critter and text recognition, and in other components.

As for “Artificial Intelligence” in the form of large language models (LLM), that’s helpful to an extent and word salad to an extent. Apple has indicated they’re not sending user data off device to Apple without prior user permission, and not sending user data to third-party large language models without prior user permission, and they’re constraining that off-device processing as they themselves don’t want to be holding this user data in an accessible fashion.

Related reading from Apple:

• Introducing Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac - Apple
• https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/

Put differently, once the Apple Intelligence features are available and can be evaluated and considered by us, look at what is being offered, at what features and privacy details are implemented, and then decide whether you will use it, or ignore it, or will migrate to a feature phone, or to Pine Phone, Pine Phone Pro or some other alternative with capabilities and an operating system better aligning with your requirements and preferences, or whatever else here makes the most sense for you.

Realize too that AI in the form of machine learning is already in widespread use within Apple devices.