To save anyone else panicking and/or wasting time searching for more context around this: you only get Apple Intelligence turned on (whether by default or not,

To save anyone else panicking and/or wasting time searching for more context around this: you only get Apple Intelligence turned on (whether by default or not, I couldn’t say) if both your hardware and geographic region support it [0]. As an owner of a pre-15 iPhone in the EU I can sleep tonight knowing the 18.3 update won’t (yet?) do all these terrible things to my UX. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Intelligence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Intelligence