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Most iPhone owners see little to no value in Apple Intelligence so far

• seanot 2y ago
  I turned on the AI features last week. Last night, Carplay noted I had an incoming text message. Instead of reading me the whole message, it summarized (poorly) the message, and then asked if I wanted to hear the entire message. I replied "yes", but it did nothing. A few minutes later, another message was received and the same thing happened. There is no way this feature saw any acceptance testing prior to release.
  • deepnet 2y ago
    From the iPhone 16 settings page : “Apple intelligence is not available when language is set to English ( United Kingdom )”
• butterisgood 2y ago
  Haven't had a single positive interaction with Apple Intelligence that I'm aware of so far. Nor have I had a negative interaction with Apple Intelligence. So I guess that might be a kind of win? On my Mac mini M4, when I actually want to use it, I can't figure out exactly how haha.
• 3vidence 2y ago
  I think I major issue with LLM based tech to users is that there really isn't a way of declaring what the tech can concretely do. The camera app? Takes picture, can do night mode photography, boomerang, burst, etc. The AI magic image / LLM app?? Idk just try stuff as a user until you can somewhat find the bounds of it. This is a similar issue to what lead to great hype and then fall behind voice assistants but to an even greater extent.
• taylodl 2y ago
  Apple has tons of user engagement data. You would think they would have a heatmap showing them where their customers are spending a lot of time trying to accomplish a task. I would focus Apple Intelligence, amongst other tools, to reduce the time needed to accomplish that task. If I were the PO, that's how I'd proceed. I'd want my customers to be able to reduce the time they're spending using the phone and yet getting more done. That open the opportunity for the customers to do new things, perhaps things you can monetize.
  • pjmlp 2y ago
    They arrived late to the VR party, while those companies were already pivoting into AI, and late to this one as well.
  • billychuck21st 2y ago
    I think the data would likely to show most people are spending time on short videos.
    • nozzlegear 2y ago
      Why do you think that?
      • billychuck21st 2y ago
        because there are plenty of research showing majority of screen time is spent on video watching, followed by social media and games.
        • nozzlegear 2y ago
          Ah, I didn't know that. I try to avoid video watching myself, especially shorts/tiktok-style content. My wife, on the other hand, primarily uses her phone for that stuff, so my gut tells me you're right.
  • andix 2y ago
    The most useful thing for AI on an operating system level is in my opinion aggregation and summarization of data from different apps. And somehow connecting the different apps in a smart way. Like the iOS Shortcuts app, but with dynamically creating shortcut pipelines and much more powerful. Probably not an easy task at all.
  • adregan 2y ago
    I imagine my heatmap would show I spend a disproportionate amount of time trying to edit urls in the browser bar.
• aurareturn 2y ago
  No surprise. The features they released aren't very helpful. What is truly helpful is cloud-based foundational models like GPT4o, which a phone is not powerful enough to run locally and Apple does not have a good enough cloud model for. However, over time, I think LLMs at the OS level will be very useful. It's the ultimate agentic AI platform.
• everdrive 2y ago
  This is emblematic of the LLM race in general. We’re actively pressured to use co-pilot at work, and it’s crammed into every Microsoft product. I’m thankful that my iPhone is old enough not to use LLMs. Companies are afraid of being left behind in the new arms race, but that doesn’t actually mean that the technology actually present use-cases which most people need. (Worse are the meeting summaries or emails which are written by LLMs. The summaries are just not very good, and any sort of LLM writing is a tacit acknowledgement that people don’t really care what they are writing, an that no one is really reading that writing very carefully.)
  • _heimdall 2y ago
    > We’re actively pressured to use co-pilot at work Unless you work at Microsoft, that's really interesting to me. Can't say I've ever experienced a boss pushing for me to use a certain developer tool.
    • hobs 2y ago
      I have many friends telling me their job is actively pushing for them to use AI, asking them to be creative about the use of AI, and in some cases pivoting the business to AI products which have no profit margin for the business. I have worked at many places, and often as soon as there's enough profit and momentum based on the back of some core product the fad chasing begins in earnest.
      • whaleofatw2022 2y ago
        Suits get to then do talks about how awesome they are for their AI transition and the synergies it brought to their OKRS. Or some bs like that. Work at one or two shops where an expensive product makes the org's life a living hell but two directors or similar get to do a talk about how it has 'transformed' IT. It will all make sense then.
      • iamacyborg 2y ago
        I've experienced this, it mostly comes with eye-wateringly expensive yearly contracts the company has signed where whoever made the decision needs to show that even low single digit percentages of company staff are using the thing they received a license for.
• FiniteLooper 2y ago
  The ONLY Apple AI feature that was even remotely interesting to me was the photo clean up. Works pretty good for removing objects from a photo, which would be hard to do on a phone otherwise without opening in another app or messing with it on a desktop application
  • code_for_monkey 2y ago
    Android has had that for ages, and its cool to play with maybe twice and then I kind of forgot about it. It just turns out I dont take a lot of pictures that need cleaning up.
  • sureIy 2y ago
    In my experience it's pretty bad at it. The replacements have really bad repeating patterns/textures that aren't even part of the image. 6-year-old Photoshop content-aware fill was so much better on 10-year-old hardware.
• vachina 2y ago
  Of course they see no value in it, because most of them don’t even know they’re using it. Apple don’t usually market these features, but they had to this time round.
• cut3 2y ago
  It drains the phone battery so fast it's unusable as is.
  • akshayshah 2y ago
    The delay that Apple Intelligence introduces into notifications is also unacceptable. On both desktop and iOS, notifications are _very_ late - often more than a second on my M2 Max laptop - which ends up being quite distracting.
• agrippanux 2y ago
  Slightly off-topic because it’s for MacOS, but the new Image Playground has been fantastic for generating assets while I’ve been prototyping a new game.
  • andix 2y ago
    I guess the point is: even fantastic AI products are often not useful to the majority of people.
  • _thisdot 2y ago
    Image Playground is available for iPhones too. I haven't used it on the Mac yet. But I've send people their AI generated images and everyone's been pretty impressed by it
• can16358p 2y ago
  Notification and mail summaries definitely nice to have, thought I can live without that. What I'd really love to have is Siri superpowered with contextual natural language capabilities and multi-commands in a natural sentence. It _is_ getting there: Siri is better than it used to be and has somewhat of a contextual knowledge so far (compared to zero, before the update) but it's not there yet. It sometimes fails miserably. It should get to LLM-level contextual "memory" to be acceptable IMO.
  • maronato 2y ago
    That’s supposed to come with 18.3/4 https://www.macrumors.com/2024/12/11/apple-intelligence-features-2025/ https://www.macrumors.com/2024/12/11/apple-intelligence-feat...
  • teratron27 2y ago
    The notification summaries are OK most of the time and down right bad the rest! I'm currently working my notice period and a coworker messaged to say they where sad I was leaving the company and enjoyed working with me etc. Apple Intelligence decided the best summary of this message notification was: "News of [Me] passing received, expresses well wishes"
  • shepherdjerred 2y ago
    Siri has gotten better, but it's still so bad. I really hope they continue to iterate, or at least allow apps to replace Siri (never going to happen).
• kemiller2002 2y ago
  We have a family friend who is blind and a programmer. It's interesting to hear his perspective. His hope and expectation are that it will greatly increase usability. I've been thrown into the usability deep end due to my wife also losing her sight due to an autoimmune disorder, and my dad losing his sight due to Macular Degeneration. Honestly, it sucks, and I mean like rage quitting, phone throwing sucks. (Try it. Turn on voice assist and close your eyes.) If Apple can improve it through AI, where someone can just talk to the phone to do a series of tasks. It will honestly change everything. The number of aging people who are going to lose their vision in the U.S. is set to go up exponentially in the coming years. This could be an unprecedented win for them, if they solve this issue with AI.
  • BrandiATMuhkuh 2y ago
    Sorry to hear about what is happening in your family. I think your perspective is spot on. VUI (voice user interfaces) will absolutely change the way we interact with computers. After all, talking comes naturally to humans. The digit divide (old people, very young people, illiterate) still exists. And will likely get bigger if VUIs don't get wide spread adoption.
    • DiggyJohnson 2y ago
      <<<< digit divide ==== digital divide >>>> For some reason I spent a few minutes trying to understand the digit divide before realizing it was a typo. I do think VUI as a concept is in its infancy and will (like it or not) both hasten and address the decline of written communication.
    • pxmpxm 2y ago
      > Sorry to hear about what is happening in your family. Non-sequitur, but I cannot be the only person to find this sort performative empathy odd/out of place in this the context of HID accessiblity discussion.
      • mrtranscendence 2y ago
        You sound like a fun guy.
• Apreche 2y ago
  I was considering enabling it, and I could see the features being useful for some people, but not for me. For example, notification summaries. If someone has apps blasting them with notifications, summarizing them into fewer more meaningful ones could be truly helpful. But for me, I’ve carefully managed my notifications. I get almost none. Every single one that is enabled is important and actionable. I don’t need to summarize what’s already small. The writing help is another example. Maybe a person is a slow typist. Maybe they are losing a lot of time thinking of what to write, or how to word something. Maybe they are writing in a language in which they are less than perfectly fluent. In those cases the Apple Intelligence can be truly helpful. None of those are me, so I disabled it.
  • _heimdall 2y ago
    Notification summaries is an interesting one, feels like an email spam filter. I've always been of the mind, though, that if I'm getting too much spam I need a new email address rather than a better filter (or in this case, better notification limits/settings).
  • Royce-CMR 2y ago
    Agreed. Different for different people. Notification summaries are a lifesaver for me. Work MS teams but no copilot, lots of group chats about lower environment issues or prod issues that move super fast. The summaries have legit saved me 10 min of getting up to speed, and let me decide quickly if I need to intervene or keep working my separate workstream. The only downside for me - it keeps the summaries VERY short. Another 5-8 words as a in between notification and full app open would be great for me. (But, I acknowledge I’m likely an edge case)
• october8140 2y ago
  The only use case I find it good for is coding. And even in that case it’s more of getting from 0 to 50% quickly and I have to make corrections and finish the last 50%. I have not had a single other use case that it seems well suited for.
  • redundantly 2y ago
    What product are you using that has Apple Intelligence built into it?
• seydor 2y ago
  Gemini on android is miles ahead it seems
  • WediBlino 2y ago
    Chatting with Gemini is very good. I notice Google have realised this and are advertising it a lot. It seemed to be buried before.
• nerdjon 2y ago
  I disagree, I think the problem with surveys like this is the focus on billing everything as "AI" instead of just what it used to be as a nice feature. A lot of the small things that Apple has introduced, are things that blend in and are not screaming "AI" at you. Which is a good thing. So many of the things that are being pushed by other companies are AI crap that is flashy to show off but either the utility of it is nowhere near the promise due to fundamental issues with AI, or the novelty of it wears off and is actually useless and no one cares. Sure I wish that Apple was a bit faster with some of this, but when compared to things like Recall, rabbit, or other vaporware. They are going about it the right way, we just need to stop trying to throw around the "AI" name on everything when most users didn't have "ML" shoved down their throats for the features that they used every day powered by (fundamentally) the same tech.
  • TheJoeMan 2y ago
    I think you are downplaying just how many eggs Tim Cook has put in this basket to pitch to shareholders vs. the perceived low % of apple engineering staff that seems to have been involved in its creation. ATT has been advertising "get the new iPhone with Apple Intelligence" before it was even available for sale! And now it's here, and it's a tiny bump in feature set. A super missed opportunity to rebrand/completely revamp Siri, and instead an implicit acceptance of defeat that Siri is still so dumb, you should just ask her to ask "someone else" (ChatGPT). Cook is feeling pressure to explain how Apple is going to crank out unsustainable revenue growth even after basically saturating the world (at some point you've won capitalism).
    • nerdjon 2y ago
      Apple has to balance it, clearly investors want to shove AI into everything but most users simply don't care or want to be reminded its "AI" every moment. Apple has to walk the line between both of these groups. You are right about investors, but how many of those investors have also funded and continue to push for vaporware products and features? We have seen this many many times over the last couple of years. So I do think their importance needs to be downplayed since they are clearly making bad decisions. Also, this article was about customers not investors. Apple for years has been marking "Siri" as far more than just the voice assistant and instead encompassing many of their ML systems. For example the "Siri App Suggestions". I don't think that rebranding it would make any sense.
• paultopia 2y ago
  The image generator in 18.2 is... honestly kinda pitiful. It doesn't seem to be able to achieve images that match two-sentence descriptions.
• omcnoe 2y ago
  Biggest disappointment with Apple Intelligence is that it doesn't seem to be able to do anything with the apps I actually use. Can't say "find this email" because I am using the gmail app instead of Apple's inbuilt email app. Can't say "send blah blah blah to Bob Smith on Teams" because Teams doesn't integrate at all. Without integrations into any apps smart assistant isn't very smart.
  • teamonkey 2y ago
    Different assistant, but I'm still astounded that my Fire TV can't understand the words "play"/"pause"/"unpause"/"continue" consistently across all apps despite having a dedicated button on the remote for doing just that. The bar is low.
• uludag 2y ago
  I was reflecting on old technologies that were supposedly revolutionary at the time, like palm pilots, and what value they really provided. Like, I can imagine a someone at that time using a palm pilot and claiming that it's making them more "productive." Looking back though, such technologies are nothing compared to what we have. So there's a perceived gap between our current state of technology (LLMs etc.) and the past, yet the gains in productivity don't seem to match this perception (e.g. if our tools are 1000x better, why do I feel only like 1.1x more productive. revolutionary AI tools? still, I only feel at most 1.1x more productive in life in general). My idea is that such technologies' utility is secondary to their signaling power. Like, users seeing value in Apple Intelligence isn't the point. Rather, integrating AI into your product is a signal of competitive prowess. And using AI, even if it makes you less productive and produce worse work, signals your faith in technological progress and innovation.
  • grishka 2y ago
    The productivity improvement is negative because of how much of everything is now a "product" instead of just a tool. Whenever you open something, especially after not using it for a while, you're met with an obstacle course of in-your-face modals and popovers about new features that you don't give a shit about. Software used to let you get your job done more efficiently. Installing a new app and learning to use it felt like discovering a superpower. Now it feels like a chore. Now it feels like computers don't serve people any more, but the other way around.
    • notsydonia 2y ago
      This! Rather than focusing on a robust, bug-free "it just works" product - the original Steve Jobs vision embodied in late 90s/early 2000s Apple advertising, the offerings are desktop computers with hundreds of "cool" things you can do, like we're all teenagers. And once you click away all the pop-ups and disable the unwanted features, you're left with software that has a bug in it that's precisely the same as three versions ago. As for Apple Intelligence, I think I am really weird but when I am trying to find 'the answer' to something, I find the research process super informative and always get fresh ideas or new, peripheral input as I go.
• badgersnake 2y ago
  You can take out the “Apple” and it would still be true.
• replwoacause 2y ago
  I wouldn’t know because Apple doesn’t want iPhone 13 Pro Max users having access to their AI functionality. So my 18.2 update is neutered compared to someone’s running the latest device.
  • mmiyer 2y ago
    This is actually for lack of RAM reasons - 15 pro and above have 8gb RAM which is enough to fit 3-4gb models locally with room to spare for rest of the applications. The 13 pro max has 6gb of RAM which is not enough.
    • replwoacause 2y ago
      Oh that makes sense, thanks for explaining!
    • KMnO4 2y ago
      Not all Apple Intelligence is run locally. They could have added all the API-based stuff to older phones, but they didn’t
• EugeneOZ 2y ago
  Please Apple, add an option to let Siri transfer my requests over the internet to handle them with an actually intelligent helper. Currently, Siri is only good for setting timers.
• baggy_trough 2y ago
  The Message suggestions are insultingly awful. And I can't find a way to turn them off.
  • jakemauer 2y ago
    The suggestions are terrible and insensitive at worst and benign at best. No matter what they're distracting. There doesn't seem to be a way to turn them off, you have to turn off Apple Intelligence as a whole on the device. As long as I can't turn this stupid feature off on its own, Apple Intelligence will remain disabled.
• hengheng 2y ago
  Now do the same survey on Siri. I bet the result is going to be the same. The age-old concept of "affordance" in a user interface, where a device announces its capabilities to the user, has completely gone down the drain. Now we're back to mystical buttons that claim to perform magic, and we happily ignore the tedious process of figuring out what just happened, implying that is not part of the User's Experience.
  • adolph 2y ago
    As a light Siri user since the iPhone 4s, I was looking forward to the better interpretation and context window that an LLM service typically provides. Maybe this is not the case if "Apple Intelligence" is a different silo in the OS.
• micromacrofoot 2y ago
  most AI products haven't been integrated to the point where they can actually be useful (largely because they still completely fuck things up and no one trusts them) — I don't want AI to write words for me, I want it to perform the middling multi-app tasks for me. Not "write this text for me" but "put together a kids music playlist and start it when I connect to carplay" or "take the last few photos of the kids and send them to my mom's photo frame", "respond to all political texts from unknown numbers with STOP", "write a bash script that does XYZ so I don't have to manually workaround this dodgy hard drive issue every time my computer restarts" the promise was personal assistants, but they're still mostly chat bots
• ProofHouse 2y ago
  I can’t even get iPhone 15pro max insane. But don’t care. Apple is useless and Siri is SO pathetic that Tim Cook should be literally fired by the board for gross incompetence. It can’t even set a timer on the latest flagship device
  • Daneel_ 2y ago
    Are you saying you can’t have apple intelligence on your 15 pro max? Yes you can - it’s one of the supported models. I’m not sure what difficulty you’re having with timers. It’s quite easy to do multiple timers: “hey siri, timer one hour”, or “hey siri, start a pasta timer for 9 minutes”, or “hey siri how long is left on the pasta timer?” I use it all the time.
  • ErneX 2y ago
    Timers are on the clock app, or just ask Siri "set a timer for X minutes".
• jjice 2y ago
  I'm new to iOS - just switched from Android about 10 days ago. I didn't move for Apple Intelligence, but it's a feature I've played with. - Writing tools are neat, but I don't have much use for them. They worked pretty alright. - Image playground is neat, but I haven't and probably won't use it outside of goofing around and showing a buddy. - The new Siri is awful. I don't know the old Siri very well, but it's just not good. I had to ask it something like five times what time one of yesterday's football games was going to be. - Visual intelligence isn't even a thing. I can't believe they're advertising it like it's interesting. It's just asking ChatGPT about an image (which the ChatGPT app already supports) or using Google Lens (which the Google app supports). What I am impressed by is how much gets run on device. About half of the writing tools are fully on device and the image playground was running entirely on device. That was very neat to me. Tested by turning of all data connection and seeing what was unavailable (ran into this with writing tools). I'm still super hopeful for Siri to use my personal context. I think that one is set for March 2025 in the US. If they can pull that off, that will be the most valuable personal use case of AI for me so far. If I can just ask "When does my flight leave?" and it can immediately know I'm talking about my flight next week to visit family for the holidays and either use the email or my calendar to pull it, that's just incredibly neat to me. Other than that, I've been enjoying the iPhone and some of their other machine learning features that have been around before Apple Intelligence. Searching in the Photos app is blowing my mind. I think Google Photos would do that too if I had backed up my images, but have this on device on the iPhone is just insane. I can't believe all of y'all have had this for years.
  • criddell 2y ago
    Have you played with Shortcuts yet? That's the one iOS (and I suposed iPadOS and macOS) feature that simultaneously makes me very happy and infuriates me. It's so satisfying to get something working, but it's usually a pretty frustrating experience getting there.
    • jjice 2y ago
      I'm so interesting in Shortcuts and I love the idea of them, but I haven't found much of a personal use for them yet outside of a shortcut to a specific Google Sheet. That said, I love that Apple has made this a first party thing. Tasker on Android was a bit finicky (not a knock - it's gotta be hard not being the platform owner and dealing with so much different hardware). I want to have a use for them so badly! Everything I would've made a shortcut for back in my original iOS days (ended in 2014) are things they've added to the OS directly, so I really can't complain too much.
• yavor-atanasov 2y ago
  Recently upgraded my iPhone 11 to 16 (mostly because battery was not great anymore). I've turned off all of the gen AI stuff and enjoy the longer battery life and a better camera. I'm not an gen AI skeptic - I use it in other contexts (e.g. CoPilot, chatGPT). I just don't find Apple's current AI experiments that appealing really (e.g. emojis?? really?). I guess gradually they'll find the natural fit of these technologies in places where they actually bring value. At the moment it just feels like a salespitch to justify the over spec-ed phones we keep buying.
• duxup 2y ago
  LLMs can do useful things… but they seem to be getting shoehorned into tasks that they’re not good at.
• freetime2 2y ago
  The only “benefit” of Apple Intelligence so far is that it apparently requires a lot of memory, causing Apple to bump up their minimum Mac Mini configurations to 16 GB memory. I’m loving my Mac Mini so far - but that’s entirely due to the M4 chip inside rather than any Apple Intelligence feature. I have not used a single Intelligence feature beyond just trying them out initially and being completely underwhelmed.
  • brookst 2y ago
    You don’t find the LM based spelling and word suggestions much better than the old ones?
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    • freetime2 2y ago
      No, I have not noticed any difference.
  • inversetelecine 2y ago
    Same, it was something I played with maybe for 10 minutes, then forgot about. Glad my iPhone 14 Pro isn't supported.
• dagmx 2y ago
  Feels a bit premature to survey this because most of the very user forward features only released last week, so are still very early in having users update. The ones in 18.1 are significantly more in the background and restricted to the US. I’m not saying the results themselves would change necessarily, just that the timing of the survey is poor to have any actual substance be drawn from it.
• ubermonkey 2y ago
  100%. I'm still on the prior rev of both MacOS and iOS because I don't see the upside to upgrading.
• op00to 2y ago
  I had no idea that any Apple Intelligence features were enabled at all.
• enterthedragon 2y ago
  AI, especially LLMs, needs to move beyond being a "checkbox feature" and focus on solving real problems effectively. For example, as some users noted, personalized AI capabilities—such as context-aware assistance for accessibility or seamless integration across devices—have the potential to revolutionize user experience. However, the current implementation often feels more like a marketing exercise than a thoughtful enhancement. Until AI tools provide consistent, tangible value, skepticism from users is likely to persist
• jstummbillig 2y ago
  So, surveys. "Smartphone users in general are unsatisfied with the existing AI features as the survey recorded 73% of Apple Intelligence users and 87% of Galaxy AI users stating the new features to be either ‘not very valuable’ or they ‘add little to no value’ to their smartphone experience." This could be read as 27% of users, who have tried a brand new way of interacting with their phone, found it useful to some degree right away. Imagine: You introduce a brand new, well, anything into peoples lives at Apple scale, and 27% of them find it useful, right away. I don't know what number people expect, but I think you could consider this an outrageous success. I am not saying it should be read that way. But then again, I am not sure why it should be read any other way.
  • Tepix 2y ago
    An outrageous success? Really? Everywhere where i've seen reviews, the reviewers are not very happy with Apple intelligence.
  • m463 2y ago
    It also seems like the article title has a bias. I think people only notice this when the bias goes against their thinking. Or when something is controversial in their minds and they agree strongly. Personally, I think apple has deep pockets and it will eventually catch on. They have been helpfully auto-completing words when typing and identifying people in photos. In a similar way I sort of hated amazon for "ask our AI" moving popup on the product pages. But... below the non-obtrusive AI summary of the product reviews is actually helpful.
  • dylan604 2y ago
    > This could be read as 27% of users Not necessarily. Poll results are not %Pro + %Con = 100%. It could equally be likely that 83% find no use and 27% have not tried it leaving 0% liking it.
    • jstummbillig 2y ago
      It does say 73% of "Apple Intelligence users". So I would assume that 100% of them are not just iPhone owners but people who have actually used Apple Intelligence, to some degree.
• shadowtree 2y ago
  It's legit bad, with an awful onboarding experience. Opened Image Playground on the iPhone, every prompt error'ed out. Deleted the app. 5min later I get a notification - Image Playground is now operational! Like what the heck!? Also turned off every summary function. I need to see the latest update on an email thread, not the start. Whoever designed this one...omg.
• falcor84 2y ago
  > the survey recorded 73% of Apple Intelligence users ... stating the new features to be either ‘not very valuable’ or they ‘add little to no value’ to their smartphone experience. They make it sound negative, but I'm lacking context on how it compares to other recent features. I actually would assume that with 27% of users finding a feature to be somewhat valuable, it's a relatively successful launch.
  • dylan604 2y ago
    someone else made a similar comment already, and I just don't understand why you default to 27% liking it. Of those responding, less than half said that AI was even a consideration in their new phone purchase. So we already see more people do not care about AI from the off. Of those reporting using the feature, it says 73% state they don't care about it after using. That does not mean the other 27% said they did like it. It is not a binary option of Yes/No. The numbers are just not there in TFA, and you're jumping to conclusions
    • falcor84 2y ago
      I didn't imply a yes/no; based on TFA, I assume that they used a 5-point scale, with the middle option being phrased something like "somewhat valuable", and there being two more positive ones. TFA is critically lacking in both the survey details and what other features got on similar surveys.
      • dylan604 2y ago
        This is the point. There's not enough information to make any kind of claims by subtracting available numbers from 100 and concluding anything with the remainder.
        • falcor84 2y ago
          Indeed. My take is that there's just not enough context in TFA to conclude anything whatsoever.
• varjag 2y ago
  All I have from "Apple Inteligence" now is the super annoying extra delay when texting an image.
  • sureIy 2y ago
    How is that related?
• addicted 2y ago
  I think it does calculations when I type the = sign. That’s occasionally been convenient. But that’s more than balanced out by the couple of times it’s rewritten the words I’ve typed to something I absolutely did not intend on saying. And the first time I ended up actually sending the message and it caused a whole lot of confusion. I would have thoughts it’s auto correct except AI changed a couple of words and the spellings weren’t similar.
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• nomilk 2y ago
  I'm weirdly happy with Apple taking their time. Seeing AI stuffed into every nook and crevice of various non-Apple apps has made me appreciate apps that use AI tastefully or not at all (counter example: today I tried the LLM built into GitHub's feed page - to describe it as a 'toy' or 'trash' is not overstating how embarrassingly useless it is!). Better not to have junk features, or ones that use AI for AI's sake.
  • akmarinov 2y ago
    But it seems that the whole Apple Intelligence initiative is impacting iOS 19 [1], which to me makes Apple Intelligence detrimental to the whole OS. Some of the features are nice (smarter Siri, notification summary) others will probably be left to rot like the whole Animoji thing. [1] https://www.moneycontrol.com/europe/?url=https://www.moneycontrol.com/technology/apple-s-ios-19-update-could-be-delayed-due-to-staggered-ios-18-rollout-article-12889829.html https://www.moneycontrol.com/europe/?url=https://www.moneyco...
• rock_artist 2y ago
  Only "intelligent" thing that happened with this Apple shift is finally giving a (minor) bump of RAM to their product line. Apple 202x is all about hardware. It's quite nice seeing how latest FCP leverage the new hardware to improve workflow harnessing NPU. I do hope their software would catch up. it's quite strange that Siri which isn't even using basic LLM yet.
• ada1981 2y ago
  I imaged an Alien species having a headline on the condition of our planet that read : “Humans see little to no value in intelligence so far…”
• epolanski 2y ago
  I'm deeply fatigued by this constant pushing of AI everywhere. I now actively avoid any of the new AI features and try to block them as soon as possible. Yet they shoving it in all of my tools...notes..os..pics..chats.. There's scenarios where I do use and want the AI features like Cursor or occasionally chatgpt, but that's essentially it.
• jwr 2y ago
  The E-mail categorization is so bad that it's totally useless. Most of my E-mails are categorized wrong. I can't see how anyone thought it was a good idea to deploy this.
  • HumblyTossed 2y ago
    $3 trillion dollar company. What are they doing with the money? I'm baffled they could still be putting out anything less than exceptional quality.
    • sosborn 2y ago
      Money and quality are rarely correlated.
• llm_nerd 2y ago
  The image playground is fun, but in many ways Siri is worse. Previously I could dictate an entire command + message, and now you have to dictate the command and then wait until it switches to that modality, then sending the command. Notification summaries are great. A couple of my children tend to message a coherent single thought across a rapid-fire set of messages, which previously was condensed down to something like "Person - 7 messages" and now is "Person wants to know what is for dinner as they are currently on a hike and want to time accordingly". It has provided excellent summaries. Though apparently it adds some notification delay, though honestly haven't experienced that on mobile.
  • tssva 2y ago
    I asked image playground to create an image of a treeing walker coonhound, my dog's breed, as a ballerina because I thought my daughter would find it amusing. I had to scroll through 4 images to get one that didn't have 5 legs. My experience with summaries hasn't been much better. The summary provided has been incorrect enough that I can't trust any summaries presented.
• kaptainscarlet 2y ago
  The AI I have found the most value from is the OCR for copy paste which has been availble in Samsung phones for years. Everything else is a gimick. VoiceAI only wows you once and gets tiring very quickly.
• AlienRobot 2y ago
  Technologies are starting to feel like javascript libraries. Every year there is a new one and the next year nobody cares about it anymore. I don't understand a lot about AI or quantum computers, but I'm 50% sure in the future we'll be sold QPU's to use AI or something like that.
• jsheard 2y ago
  The doubling-down on AI will continue until morale improves. If users don't engage with AI it's clearly because there isn't enough AI in the product yet.
• alana314 2y ago
  I tried image playground on mac and can't think of why I'd want to use these corny looking images. It downloaded a ~5GB model and doesn't offer the option to remove it. Anyone know where it's stored so I can delete it?
• ankit219 2y ago
  Not surprising. This is an early alpha phase to be fair, where there isn't enough integration to be wowed. The features are basic, and if you use other Apple apps, you get some help, but it's not as deeply integrated as you would like it. I think on phones, real value comes from intuitive actions which are integrated deeply. And peripheral vs having to be prompted everytime. Eg: A very simple usecase is just knowing when to disturb via notifications. (eg: disturb me when I need to intervene where something is blowing up in a group chat I have muted. Or automations and insights that come from aggregation. Eg: I get notifications about a spend - smartly put them in a sheet somewhere that i can look at later. Translation, transcription, image editing etc. are all already covered. Those are more nice to haves and not essential at the moment.
• Havoc 2y ago
  Unlike other areas they don’t seem to have found any sort of way to apply apple special sauce. If you’re just doing the same as everyone else then you can’t justify any premium. Maybe they’ll pull something out of a hat but think if they had something they’d have done it already
• ellisv 2y ago
  IMO the most useful features are the summarizations – something I'm not sure the average user even recognizes as "AI". Image/emoji generation isn't really useful but I expect the photo editing capabilities will get a lot better over the next few years. The camera is one of the biggest reasons people buy a new iPhone but most consumers don't realize how much computational photography is involved. I can definitely see the groundwork for more compelling features.
  • mcintyre1994 2y ago
    You only need it to summarise badly once to stop finding it useful though. There was a BBC notification that it summarised as "Luigi Mangione shoots himself" a few days ago.
• smileson2 2y ago
  I dunno I get a giggle out of the non intentionally satirical news summaries Personally I think it’s bad to use llms where people need to have trust or don’t expect non exactness, they are handy for some things though
• benrutter 2y ago
  I think the contrast here is interesting: > almost half (47.6%) of iPhone users reported AI features as a ‘very’ or ‘somewhat’ important deciding factor when buying a new phone In the context of: > 73% of Apple Intelligence users [...] stating the new features to be either ‘not very valuable’ or they ‘add little to no value’ to their smartphone experience. It's obviously hard/impossible/foolhardy to try and put a story behind these two figures, but it's intesting that a big chunk of people who think AI features are important in a phone, don't actually find those features add any value to them. Maybe people are under the impression that LLMs or plugins will improve significantly?
• amyames 2y ago
  I’ve found the ai summarizer helpful for parsing my boyfriend’s drunk and or stoned emo texting.
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• koinedad 2y ago
  The few things I’ve tried on my iPad which supports Apple Intelligence haven’t worked so the fact that’s there’s a rollout of isolated features that is not clear to the user doesn’t help. I tried some of the stuff I saw in commercials and it failed miserably ha
• MuffinFlavored 2y ago
  I use Claude/ChatGPT a lot. I turned Apple Intelligence off. It was summarizing incoming text messages instead of showing me what people said at a quick glance. Also, I don't really e-mail off my phone. If I'm going to write an e-mail, I would want to just write it and be done with it. To write it, have AI mangle it, then need to re-work it sounds like more work. It'd be cool if you could tell me "show me all of my photos with ____" (I know that exists today, speaking of more advanced) but that's about all I can think of
• 015a 2y ago
  The new features in 18.2 GA release are a total shit-show. I've never seen Apple software this rushed out the door before, probably to beat the end-of-year shutdown. Image Playground is full of so many bugs and weird UX patterns. - The app is called "Playgrounds". Weird, especially considering Apple already has an app called "Playgrounds" (full name: Swift Playgrounds). Fine, weird, and especially weird if you put yourself in the shoes of someone who has no idea what AI is or what Apple is building. - When you launch it, it has to download models, a process which took over an hour on my internet connection, but it gives you no indication the models are downloading except one informational popup when you first launch the app; nor the download's progress. - Instead, I was placed into the full app experience, where I was allowed to try to generate images. The generations would fail with an error. - However, the error is totally unreadable because its presented as a toast at the top of the screen, rendering underneath the dynamic island. All I could see was the first few and last few characters. - I've heard confusion from two friends (techy-bubble of course) on "why can I only generate variations on these four friends" Its because the list of people you can generate images of seems to come from the list of facial recognition targets in Apple Photos. Yup. None of my friends who have tried this pay for Apple Photos, so their photos aren't being backed up, their list of generation targets are only those in recently taken images. - You can upload arbitrary images to the model. But its... well, it doesn't do anything predictable. A picture of a bookshelf imagegens a piano. A picture of a person complains with an error clipping the dynamic island "choose a photo with the face more in view". A picture of a black SUV imagegens a yellow jeep. The immediate sense I got is that they're feeding the uploaded image into a "describe this image" LLM, summarizing it, then feeding that back into the imagegen model. - There is one additional option in this menu, labeled "Appearance". I dare you to click that, put yourself in the shoes of someone who doesn't browse HackerNews every day, and try to understand why that's there and what it does. I think its presenting a way to generate a generic AI generated human, without a source real image? You get the choice of skin tone, and then some kind of ever-changing collage of Vibes of the person you want generated? I can't even explain what's going on because even I'm confused, its incomprehensible. - The share sheet breaks like 20% of the time. On one occasion this break crashed the app with a popup that displayed a stack trace. - We were told we'd be able to generate images in three unique styles: Sketch, Animation, and Illustration. Only two of these are available (Sketch is absent) [1]. Its really bad, even when it works the images it generates are pretty trash. [1] https://youtu.be/RXeOiIDNNek?t=4180 https://youtu.be/RXeOiIDNNek?t=4180
• travisgriggs 2y ago
  This seems largely like the new Apple, a company playing defensive/reactionary to shareholder impression, has to chase whatever the latest public craze is. During the Jobs era, it was whatever Steve thought was cool. Which was sometimes wrong as well, but it was less derivative than this new norm.
  • ycombinatrix 2y ago
    Siri 2.0
• idontwantthis 2y ago
  I don’t know what it does except Siri seems to be able to answer complex questions on the level that Google assistant could at least ten years ago. Can anyone tell me what I’m supposed to be doing with this?
• tobyhinloopen 2y ago
  Apple Intelligence is months (years?) behind on ChatGPT. It can't even deal with other languages. Useless.
• jdprgm 2y ago
  I think this is much more on a botched rollout and a lack of vision. Apple should have been working on this for years and have some pretty big advantages. A deeply integrated version of the best o1 chat and vision models with context from all various apps and ability to do complex app interactions could be amazing. They could even have the ability to have AI basically create on demand personalized new applications for specific use cases. They could integrate it to be a proactive AI agent regularly interacting with you regarding various goals (instead of just answering questions). Instead so far we get the most barebones largely unimpressive features like basic text summaries and toy things like image gen and they fail to have even the modest features announced in June ready for latest iPhone launch earlier this year.
  • AlwaysRock 2y ago
    I agree. This feels like the norm now a days though. An initial soft launch, iterative improvements from there. If something catches on, great! If it doesnt, less money/time spent upfront investing in it.
  • layer8 2y ago
    I agree, but based on their software track record over the last couple of years, I have little hope that we’ll get much beyond a disparate collection of mostly half-baked features.
    • PittleyDunkin 2y ago
      > I have little hope that we’ll get much beyond a disparate collection of mostly half-baked features. Really? AI has driven most of the interesting features they've released in the last decade. Notably, organization of the photos app and indexing of people, pets, places, etc. (Nb I have not yet updated to ios 18 and I understand the photos app is somewhat controversial.)
      • layer8 2y ago
        The GP comment was calling for complex context-aware cross-app functionality. The new Photos app features do have their use, but they are limited to the particular compartmentalized use cases envisaged by Apple. For example, they support cats and dogs specifically, but not pets in general. There’s also the tendency that once a feature has shipped, it’s apparently considered “done”, and the lead developers likely move on to other things. It doesn’t feel like there is a continuous ownership and coherent vision behind the features and apps, or behind the overall OS trajectory.
• ArlenBales 2y ago
  I enabled it for awhile, but turned it off. My problem, as usual, is trust. Summarizing a website, news article, or email? I can't trust that the summary doesn't contain hallucinated information.
• tvararu 2y ago
  I used to be able to tell Siri "Turn off the lights." Sometimes in 2017 or 2018 they "updated" it and now it replies "Which room?" Followed by slowly listing out the 6 or 7 options including "everywhere." I haven't been able to reprogram myself to say "Turn off all the lights" which works as before. Hearing that reply is the equivalent of hitting your toe on a wardrobe. This update didn't fix this. The functionality is the same as before. Basic stuff, but no way to fix it.
  • mrguyorama 2y ago
    This is a fundamental result of any natural language system. English is explicitly ambiguous, and explicitly a 1 dimensional medium. Meanwhile using a screen, you can surface numerous easily discoverable options that a human being can quickly consume and choose, and the structure of the options can convey its own information, and you have lots of other signal channels like color. I feel like people who insist that voice controlled computing is the future have never REALLY tried to voice control their computer with a voice, which has been eminently possible since at least Windows XP, and indeed is a way that disabled users have been interacting with computers for decades.
  • brink 2y ago
    I'm in the same boat. My phone keeps asking me if I want to update to Gemini, but I won't because Gemini just gives my typical LLM BS responses when I just want to do a basic Google search with my voice. Gemini just complicates my already complicated life, so I don't want it.
  • layer8 2y ago
    Similarly, stopping an alarm in another room/on another device doesn’t seem possible without Siri having to ask back about the device/room, and the user having to affirm it. That back and forth takes an unnerving couple of seconds. You can’t just say “Stop the alarm in $room/on $device”. It gets worse when the device you talk to is simultaneously playing back something, because then you first have to stop that playback in order for Siri to not misapply the “stop” command intended for the alarm.
• rm_-rf_slash 2y ago
  When I was an Apple intern, Tim told us that technology only has an impact when it changes behaviors. Otherwise it’s a “gimmick.” I wonder which behaviors Tim has changed from using Apple Intelligence?
• ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago
  I am using an iPhone 13 Mini, which will need to be pried from my cold, dead, hands. The new "intelligence" hasn't made any difference that I can note, other than a couple of buttons, and Siri seems a bit less dense. On my Mac, the Xcode auto-fill has improved quite a bit. It is now useful enough for me to use (but I still need to check its work, as it hallucinates weird API calls).
  • mikestew 2y ago
    using an iPhone 13 Mini…The new "intelligence" hasn't made any difference that I can note Hello, fellow cold-dead-hands iPhone Mini user: iPhone 13 doesn’t support Apple Intelligence, though, right?
    • ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago
      That would explain the lack of difference. My Mac is a new Mini M4, though.
  • jjice 2y ago
    Aren't the newest features that are branded as "Apple Intelligence" (not their other ML stuff that's been around for a while) only available on the iPhone 15 Pro and 16 line? https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/10/apple-intelligence-is-available-today-on-iphone-ipad-and-mac/ https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/10/apple-intelligence-is... At the bottom: > Apple Intelligence is available on iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro, iPhone 16 Pro Max, iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, iPad with A17 Pro or M1 and later, and Mac with M1 and later. Unless you're referring to it on a Mac or iPad or something.
    • ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago
      You are correct. My Mac is an M4, though.
• shayonj 2y ago
  The true "intelligence" I want isn't in rewriting or summarizing emails and texts IMHO - that's actually confusing and frustrating from a product usability POV. What I'd truly love is the ability to dictate lists to Siri while walking, driving, or doing chores, and have Siri capture them in Notes as checklists, share them with my partner, and so on. I'd also like more contextual answers from my calendar, and the ability to access and share details from my notes, all in hands-free mode.
• marxisttemp 2y ago
  I was excited for the Genmoji, but they seem to be highly censorious and in general just have no idea how to represent many concepts as emoji. The image playgrounds are obviously a nightmare that should never have seen the light of day. The summaries are nice.
• blindriver 2y ago
  I thought Apple Intelligence would make Siri smarter but I have been extremely disappointed. Apple Intelligence is useless and makes Apple look stupid. Siri is still less than 50% useful and the only time it actually works is when I ask it to create a timer or an alarm. It's otherwise useless. My kids and I have a game while I'm driving where I will ask Siri a perfectly reasonable question and we will guess whether or not it will answer it reasonably. I don't understand how it can be so bad compared to everything else out there.
• 404mm 2y ago
  The only tool I appreciate is the text proofreading option. The summaries are ok but I could live without them. The rest is no good to me. I think I’ve been trained for years to avoid Siri (because how embarrassingly bad it is) that I just never even think to “ask” my phone for anything.
• bangaroo 2y ago
  Apple Intelligence is kind of uniquely bad. I don't understand how, but its AI message summaries often completely flip the meaning of texts I've received. I've gotten summaries that say "X person hates Y" and I read the message and it's them talking about how much they love it. It is impressively, wildly inaccurate. It confuses things like people's names and the messages they're sending and sometimes will paraphrase names that are also english-language words into related concepts and blend them into sentences that make no sense. The only thing it seems to do accurately is describe images that have been sent to me, though I don't really see the value in a 2 sentence summary of an image being sent (folks with limited visibility will probably feel differently.) I have never received a summary that gave me any idea of what the hell the messages it was summarizing was about. It's impressively bad. I'm shocked apple shipped this.
  • kjkjadksj 2y ago
    I’m not shocked they shipped. This is their mo now. Same as the apple maps rollout. Big fanfare about some feature competitors already had that apple would clone and do it better because apple. Apple releases it and its laughably worse. Apple wins the long game for some users because they privilege their app in the os relative to the third party option. And repeat for next feature.
    • nunez 2y ago
      Apple Maps in particular frustrates me. It's integrated extremely deeply into the OS in ways that Google Maps can't take advantage of. Navigation on lock screen and built-in guidance on Apple Watch (versus having to use notifications). As a result, users are "forced" to use Apple Maps if they want these very useful integrations. While I think Apple Maps is much better designed than Google Maps, this advantage is anti-competitive as hell. It's a smaller version of the IE problem that got Microsoft in hot water, and yet it persists unabated.
  • nunez 2y ago
    This happened to me! We were discussing a book that I didn't like in a book club Slack thread. I mentioned how I'm against AI in general. Someone in the channel showed me an Apple Intelligence summary of the notifications from that thread, and it concluded that I disliked the entire book club channel, which wasn't true!
• spike021 2y ago
  I had to disable it on my 16 Pro the other day. My phone was freezing or rebooting at least once per day and on a whim I disabled Intelligence. Since then I've had zero problems. I wasn't even using it much. So whatever it does in the background must have a memory leak or something.
• core-utility 2y ago
  The biggest benefit I see so far is the integration of ChatGPT into Siri to answer questions for me while I'm driving instead of giving me "I'm sorry, I can't show you that while driving"
  • bwood 2y ago
    I was looking forward to that as well, but Siri refuses to read ChatGPT's responses to me...which makes it substantially less useful. It's just as frustrating as being told "sorry, you'll have to unlock your phone if you want me to play something on youtube music". Let's hope they iterate, I guess?
  • jjtheblunt 2y ago
    I was going to second your observation: i wonder if the language models are just better than what they had been using, because Siri has become incredibly more accurate recently, in my experience.
• rqtwteye 2y ago
  When Apple announced Apple Intelligence I was very curious about how they would go about it. I expected a very innovative and elegant implementation but so far it feels very clunky. And the results aren't very good. ChatGPT is way better. Putting it at front and center of every sales presentation and then rolling it out slowly in small steps didn't help either. Siri still sucks.
• _chu1 2y ago
  The Writing Tools are a gimmick, but the improvements to Siri on the iPhone 16 are great. I haven't used the visual intelligence yet, but I always thought Google Lens was cool, so I hope it works just as well. Image Playground and Genmoji are pretty stupid, I have no idea why they wasted time on that. Message/email summaries are super weird. They show up when they want to, which is barely at all. Say what you want about this Apple Intelligence stuff, but it's nowhere near as intrusive or annoying as Gemini or Copilot. You can turn it off and ignore it.
  • jjtheblunt 2y ago
    Siri is __way__ better on iPhone 13 pro too, i've noticed. i bet they pushed better language models with software updates, but have not proven such.
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• astrostl 2y ago
  iOS 18.2 and macOS Sequoia 15.2 were released five (5) days ago. You need an iPhone 15 Pro or better for full ApIn support. It's a touch early, friends.
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• tracerbulletx 2y ago
  The only part of their presentation that was interesting is having Siri be able to control apps and reach into apps for information, and developers having an API to register actions and information with the LLM. I'm not super optimistic about the execution at this point though given how rushed it's all been.
• _1tem 2y ago
  The one feature that I love is the Reduce Interruptions focus, which I now keep on all the time. Previous approaches like simply blocking notifications for most apps doesn't work, because some critical apps (like my Uber equivalent) also send spam notifications. The Reduce Interruptions focus quite accurately manages to hide unimportant notifications without me having to block everything. Except this isn't generative AI, this is old-school machine learning classification which PG wrote about like 20 years ago.
  • Aerbil313 2y ago
    Me too! As an ADHD person I keep Reduce Interruptions always on and also make heavy, heavy use of the new AI-enhanced Siri. I think I'm making upwards of 100 Siri requests per day every day. Before Apple Intelligence Siri was much more limited.
• coryfklein 2y ago
  One major contributing factor: it is in beta and not enabled for most iPhone owners!
• buryat 2y ago
  People on 9 to 5 mac website do not want their jobs to be automated, therefore there's a certain pushback against automation. This creates a great opportunity for those who're willing to use this arbitrage
• blankx32 2y ago
  Makes it worse that it consumes space on your phone you can’t remove
• plaidfuji 2y ago
  Over the past year+ I’ve developed a litmus test for whether a new AI feature is valuable or not: If it were presented to me without using the words “AI” or “Intelligence”, would I give a s%!t about it? Can it even be described without using those words? If not, it is not valuable.
• nozzlegear 2y ago
  Lots of negative comments on this story so far. I've enabled Apple Intelligence and don't have anything negative to say except that it's difficult to figure out where I can and can't use it when I want to. It mostly stays out of the way, and when I do notice it it's been useful, which imo is about exactly what I want in an AI product built into the OS. My favorite feature has to be the email summarization thing. When I get inexplicably cc'd on a long thread by some clients, it's nice to have a summarization at the top so I can quickly determine whether it's something I need to deal with now or later. Others here worry about the AI hallucinating in the summary, which is a concern of mine too, but I always read the emails anyway – this is just a useful inbox triage tool (for me).
  • nunez 2y ago
    I can't get with summarization features. It's letting an app decide what's important enough for you to know about without knowing what you would consider important (which can change depending on loads of factors). It's too easy to miss key details.
• reilly3000 2y ago
  Here is what I want from Apple Intelligence: Given a user story “I chipped my tooth” I say “hey siri, I just chipped my tooth, can you help me?” I would want it to: - help me schedule an appointment with my dentist (it could create a reminder, ideally know who my dentist is, even ideally queue up or place a call) - put that appointment on my home and work calendar - remind me to tell my manager I need the time away - help me reschedule any existing appointments - compose a message to let my partner know - tell me to try to save the broken bit for my dentist? At best right now it may give me a Wikipedia entry or make a chipped tooth emoji. I think Apple started with hardware that can run little LLMs and asked “what can we run on these that people would like?” They didn’t start with a vision of what novel machine Intelligence feels like for a user, and slowly but thoroughly build a satisfying realization of that new relationship. I want my phone to want to help me, and keep trying to get better at it. I need it to know when it fails. I want to be empowered to help it get better.
  • reilly3000 2y ago
    Ohh and I would like to be able to tell it not to keep featuring photos of my ex wife years after the divorce.
    • Sateeshm 2y ago
      Google photos somehow gets this right. Doesn't feature any pics from my previous relationship.
    • r00fus 2y ago
      Yeah, maybe just remove those from your library (archive them somewhere)?
    • weikju 2y ago
      > and I would like to be able to tell it not to keep featuring photos of my ex wife years after the divorce. You can already do that by pressing the three dots menu on a featured photo or memory and selecting the Feature this person less, with then options to not feature at all or just less.
• karaterobot 2y ago
  I just won't set up Apple Intelligence, just like I've successfully not turned on Siri this whole time. They ask you if you want to turn it on again after certain major updates, but it's really pretty simple to decline. I'm glad, at least, that they don't just turn it on for you, and not let you turn it off, as some companies would.
• Sparyjerry 2y ago
  I don't see how AI became a paying app on the consumer side. Copilot should have been included with Microsoft for free with some limit to block abusers or a way to upgrade for business processes. Absolutely zero people I know want to pay anything at all for a platform to rewrite an e-mail now and then.
• drivingmenuts 2y ago
  Aside from the image cleanup, the usages on the iPhone seem like solutions in search of a problem. Apple Intelligence on the desktop is pretty limited, so it's pretty underwhelming, too. There may be some valid usages in certain business areas, but all the hype outside of that is starting to smell like a con job.
• Hippocrates 2y ago
  If you make the user "go to the AI" and activate it somehow, you did it wrong. A good AI/LLM experience is one which meets you where you are already working. Github Copilot is FAR from the best LLM at coding, but it is amazingly useful the way it integrates with my workflow. On the other hand, Apple's Image Playground, Genmoji, and writing tools all make you visit the AI feature to use it. Same problem with chatGPT. It's absolutely painful to visit a web UI and copy/paste information in and out of the thing to get anything done. I actually do get a little value from Apple's notification group summaries. AI/LLMs need to be blended into existing places. Bring the AI to the user, don't make the user go to the AI. To put it another way. AI is not a feature. It can make a feature better. Somehow everyone wants it to be a standalone feature. It is not.