How can I disable Apple Intelligence on my iPhone?

Yes, you should always purchase the phone that suits your needs. Android also has AI so you will be using a cheap flip phone without current technology.

Ok, and?

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

I don’t want AI on my phone. I do not trust it with my personal information

Where is Apple response to this persistant and legitimate desire of their customers to be able to control AI use on their phone?

Yes you can. settings>AppleIntelligence>Exit_Waitlist.

If you experience any more issues read the official guide.

MrHoffman wrote:

For those following along at home, here are the devices with local Apple Intelligence capabilities:

Definitely more complete information than I had provided! I had restricted my observations to iPhones.

Maryone wrote:

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

If that's the case, then I'm pretty sure somebody lied to you, or at least made a sweeping generalization.

I still have my old Mac Plus in a case in the basement. The latest OS it supports is OS 7.5.5.

If I fired it up now it would still be able to do everything it did back in 1986, which means that it still "functions properly". I just can't watch Netflix on it. Or right-click on anything (which it never could do).

Likewise with my iPod touch (6th gen). It tops out at iOS 12.5.7, but it does everything it ever did. It still runs some apps that my iPhone SE 2 with iOS 17.6.1 cannot, such as the "Encyclopedia of Arda" app. Apple removed that from the App Store.

The battery life sucks though.

About the AI ... my iPhone SE 2nd gen is supposed to be able to update to iOS 18 when it's released. It's the earliest model that can.

It will NOT, however, support the AI features, which is fine by me. If I can keep the same or similar functionality of the current Siri, I might even update to 18. Otherwise, no.

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

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.

Yes consumers “Can” out per CCPA and GDPR laws. Companies are per law required to allow consumers to opt out. If they don’t the government can and will simply proxy out non approved protocols at a supernet level with backbone internet routers and fine them heavily. That said Apple will allow us to opt out. I am tired of the replies on this. Please mark resolved. Yes there is privacy laws. Just like we can turn off Siri and disable GPS it will be no different. Can we please close this post thank you. There is no point to debate law, that is for elected officials to do, and guess what they already give us “the consumers” privacy laws to project from abuse. It will have a simple toggle button. This post just keeps going. It’s all fun and games until it’s all blocked on a Ciena system for not following law.

viraja wrote:

if this is so, pl tell how to turn it off! I have searched Apple Intelligence in settings to turn off the toggle as mentioned by someone else, but I don’t see it on my iPhone 15.

Apple Intelligence is OFF by default. You must explicitly turn it on if you want to use it.

Yeah. I mean, I’m okay with AI capabilities, even as an artist. It’s angering, but inethicality in the art industry persists even without the introduction of AI, and like all else, it’s a tool. A tool I don’t want to use, with its benefits and downsides, but a tool. It should exist in a neutral context, but like everything else, it’s used in the way it is because of circumstance around us.

This is a wee tangent, but most people here are angry purely about Gen. AI, and it doesn’t look like they know that that’s the specific thing they’re criticizing, and I empathize and wholly understand the trepidation and resistance, so I don’t get why people in this thread are clarifying that “actually, AI is such a general term that it’s useless to just say AI-features,”: true, but its usage now is significantly different from its use in reference to the usual stuff we’ve seen it used for prior to 2023-2024.

But I think a lot of the fuss about them has to do with other things that manifest as people being afraid of AI taking their roles, but I also recognize the worry over stuff like privacy: I just really, really wish (and this is pretty par for the course with regards to Apple’s resistance to user customization,) that it was something I could actually turn off: as of now, it looks like it’s now constantly in the right-click menu, pestering and begging me like a child. Irritates me, but I feel sort of resigned. This is the way AI’s gonna be used, and it’s not something endemic to Apple. But the way it slots in now is pretty aggravating, constantly being shoved down your throat.

Lawrence Finch wrote:

MrHoffman wrote:

Given the many replies with this info throughout this thread, maybe Apple Intelligence can help those skimming this thread with a summary of this thread?

Maybe HI (Human Intelligence) is called for in this thread.

I think that may be asking too much.........😤

I will welcome any AI enhancement that is intelligent enough to allow me to control Music On Hold.