Will I be able to disable or opt out of AI on the future devices?

All smart phones, including iPhones, have had some form of Artificial Intelligence on them for quite a long time. It has only been getting more attention recently because of industry buzz.

This past week I took a picture of a bird nesting under my deck. The Photos app in my iPhone 14, base model with iOS 17, identified it as an Eastern Phoebe. I looked at several other old pictures, and it correctly identified the exact name of several butterflies, reptiles, and animals. Even though they were taken with much older iPhones going back to my original from 2007.

It is not possible to purchase a modern smart phone that does not have some form of machine learning present and active.

Your phone is currently using AI. This is called Machine Learning and does many things on your device:

• Detect objects in photos
• Find faces in photos
• Enhance photos
• Suggest words while typing
• Face ID
• Music suggestions
• And much more!

If you are talking specifically about Generative AI provided by Open AI, then yes you have to Allow requests to be sent to a third party server. You are not required to do this and can continue to use the Machine Learning already being done on your phone.

MiklasH wrote:

Some (especially local run) form of ai is cool with me… I don’t want apple to hand over my sensitive data to one of the worst ai companies out there… it’s crazy they wanna go with open.Ai (open.ai is such a misleading title as well)

As Apple explained in the presentation and has been explained here, you will need to authorize any use of an external AI.

Also, currently Apple Intelligence will only be available on the iPhone 15 Pro series and later. So, unless you have one of those phones, it's simply not an issue for now.

ggdub wrote:

None of which I want.

I do NOT want any AI at all.

Then get rid of your iPhone, and don’t get an android phone either. Your only choice is a dumb flip phone.

Bot iOS and Android have had AI for at least 10 years.

Aus Datenschutzgründen wird das sicher möglich sein aber man kann es dann vielleicht nicht zu 100 % nutzen

You do realize that Apple owns the iOS software on your phone, correct? They can do whatever they want.

You can tell Apple what you want here:

Feedback - iPhoneAppleApple › feedback › iphone

This is not limited to any one device.

All devices (phones, watches, tablets, computers, etc.) are using Machine Learning or A.I. from many companies.

The main difference is that Apple focuses on privacy much more than any of the other competitors.

Good luck! 👋🏼😉

Assuming that your phone is capable of running the new software......no and no.

I found a lot of articles detailing how to

opt out of them. They even called some of the new ai features “opt in” services. Hope that helps.

You are NOT addressing anyone from Apple on this user to user only forum. If you think telling other users you won't be buying an iPhone in the future affects any of us, it doesn't.

I'm sure you'll still be able to find a non-smart, flip phone somewhere. If you think you'll be able to purchase ANY smartphone from ANY manufacturer which doesn't already have or will be enhancing AI on them, think again.

Some (especially local run) form of ai is cool with me… I don’t want apple to hand over my sensitive data to one of the worst ai companies out there… it’s crazy they wanna go with open.Ai (open.ai is such a misleading title as well)

I am concerned about the ability to restrict access to the new Apple Intelligence features to my high school age teen. Kids should not be able to use the AI to do their homework.

Doing internet research is OK, but asking AI to write papers or make corrections is not. Today I can restrict access to SIRI, to AI apps on the Apple Store and to web sites with integrated AI. Parental Controls should also be applicable to the new Apple Intelligence features without needing to block upgrade to IOS18.

pc4norv wrote:

I am concerned about the ability to restrict access to the new Apple Intelligence features to my high school age teen. Kids should not be able to use the AI to do their homework.

We'll all just have to wait and see what is available when Apple releases it.

Sounds like I won’t be buying iPhone or android in the future then.

Your current phone has already been incorporating elements of AI for you.