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Apple Intelligence brings incredible new features across iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
I do not want AI on my phone can I opt out, I understand it is part of an upcoming update. I want security updates but I am not interested in feature updates.
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iPhone SE, iOS 17
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.
AIisGARBAGE wrote:
If my IPhone did not have AI on it when I bought it and now it’s being forced into my IPhone how do I return it for a full refund
Given that you now know Apple Intelligence is not being forced on you and you have to actually opt-in to use it, you can still return the device within 14 days in most regions or you can privately sell it as well. I must ask how you determined it was being forced on you and you were required to use it. Sounds like something you would find on TikTok or a Facebook post. Please enlighten us and let us know what phone you are going to use now.
IdrisSeabright wrote:
Unless you have an iPhone 15 Pro or Pro Max, you won't be getting AI features even if you update to iOS 18.
For those following along at home, here are the devices with local Apple Intelligence capabilities:
Related info, including on Private Cloud: Apple Intelligence Preview - Apple
As for machine learning (ML), that’s already in endemic use, and has been for some time.
miel256 wrote:
I feel the same way, I’m done with my writing constantly getting underlined. It’s distracting and unnecessary, I can find no setting to turn it off, I write in 3 different languages and I get frustrated trough the core.
If the existing Apple spelling and grammer tools don’t work the way you want and can’t be reonfigured, send your feedback to Apple: Product Feedback - Apple
As another potential option here, writing-focused alternatives such as Scrivener might work for your particular needs.
Maksim_Alekhin wrote:
I want to turn off the annoying "cutting out objects" from photos because I just want to look at photos.
Lifting the subject from a photo is a feature of iOS 16, and is related to Visual Lookup, and available on certain devices, and requires touching and holding on the subject to trigger it.
Here is how to: Lift a subject from the photo or video background on iPhone - Apple Support
I am aware of no means to disable or avoid this lifting, or the related Visual Lookup, short of not pressing and holding on the subject.
You can send Apple your feedback about this: Product Feedback - Apple
plazar3 wrote:
Underlying and utilitarian AI for facial recognition, sound and image enhancement, etc. are fine. When AI injects moral or political bias or has access to personal information to which some programmer can gain backdoor access despite Apple policy, I draw the line. Chat GPT was found notably biased when it first rolled out. I just now posed some test questions to it and it appears it has been made more balanced than when it first appeared. None the less, I am convinced that the programmer of AI can produce either biased or invasive results and needs evaluation, periodically.
AI is unnecessary for that, between politics, psyops, propaganda, stan-baiting, thinkfluencers, astroturfing, push-polling, trolling, copyright infringement, ubiquitous advertising, and increasingly-invasive tracking and targeted advertising, welcome to humanity with planetary-scale communications.
AI certainly helps to automate and to reduce the costs of running troll farms and content farms, sure.
Want to work toward regaining some personal and data privacy and related, check with your legislative representatives.
Want to let Apple know your feelings about AI, send it here: Product Feedback - Apple
Spritz331 wrote:
Apple must follow laws. Thus laws like CCPA as well as GDPR. Thus, Apple will have a way to allow users to disable it. They will give us a way to turn it off. There are laws in place to protect us. Don’t stress it. It will be a simple toggle button in the settings area. No big deal people that want it will get it and people that don’t won’t be bothered with it. Yep thank god for CCPA
If you are talking specifically about accessing third party models such as ChatGPT, Apple already demonstrated that each request must be specifically authorized by you. No need for a switch, you simply don't authorize it or make a request. Machine Learning has been used for several years on your device and you may not have even known it. You have seen this in features such as:
StupidAI wrote:
I want this off my phone I didn’t ask for it and don’t want nothing to do with it
thank you for my privacy
What do you want off your phone? Since Apple Intelligence hasn't even been released yet, it must be one of the other Artificial Intelligence features commonly known as Machine Learning:
Sorry, but you should expect to get what Apple wants you to get.
We don't know yet what that will be, but that is the way that it always has been.
I want to turn off the annoying "cutting out objects" from photos because I just want to look at photos.
We are just other Apple users here so cannot turn a thread off, or mark is resolved. But if you no longer want to see any more replies in your email, scroll up to the bottom of the original post. You will see a little bell icon there. Tap it to turn off your "subscription" to this thread. It will change to just an outline of a bell. You don't have to see anything you don't want to see.
1Shelby wrote:
With the new AI in ios and it being infused, I don’t want it. With all their smart ideas why can’t we turn it off if we so choose ti do so.
You will have that option. What do you not understand? AI will be opt-in, not opt-out
If you are talking about Artificial Intelligence, then your phone is currently using it even if you do not use Siri. That is how it does Face and object detection on your photos. Apple has previously referred to this as Machine Learning, but that is what Artificial Intelligence is. It is also used to show you Photo memories and many others features that you currently have on your phone.
clicksim wrote:
100% I do NOT want AI built into my iPhone. I will go iphoneless if we do not have options.
Then you will going completely mobile phoneless because ALL smartphone manufacturers are loading their devices full of it, not only Apple, and there’s nothing you can do about except stop using a mobile phone altogether. And besides that you have been using AI on your iPhone as along as you have using it, you juts didn’t realized it.
no2ai wrote:
I dont want AI and have never used siri on any of my devices
You have no choice in the matter as ALL mobile phones and computers are loaded with it already. If you really don’t want AI then sell your devices and get off the internet, find a cabin in the wilderness and live happily thereafter. Simple fact of living in the 21st century.
Iwantanswersnowforever wrote:
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.
You need to tell us what specific feature you are talking about instead of using generalities. Photos uses AI to perform face and object detection, as well as photo memories suggestions. Is this what you consider being the demise of the world.
Are you specifically talking about generative AI, like what is provided by ChatGPT? For Apple's implementation, you have to specifically allow each such request you ask for using that service. It is not taking over control of your iPhone.
Or are you not speaking specifically about any of the features provided by Apple in iOS18, and speaking more generally such as robots being built to repair themselves and self replicate to take over the world. That topic may be more relevant on a Social Media site and not a Support Site specifically for Apple products and services.
How can I disable Apple Intelligence on my iPhone?
