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There is no actual feature called "Apple Intelligence", it's a marketing term for a handful of disparate features that they are applying everywhere. Is the exc

There is no actual feature called "Apple Intelligence", it's a marketing term for a handful of disparate features that they are applying everywhere. Is the excellent OCR that lets me select text within an image Apple Intelligence? It uses local models. Or the prediction engine that optimizes battery life by backgrounding apps you're less likely to use, or applies updates while you're sleeping? What about the Latent Semantic Mapping text classification framework, which uses language models for fuzzy document search -- and has been around since 2007? It wouldn't have made sense in the past to add a master kill switch for all these features, and it doesn't really make sense now to have one for the latest iteration.

_boffin_ 12d ago
i really thought "Apple Intelligence" is the addition of data into Knowledge.db, but i guess not.
iAMkenough 12d ago
Yes, but at the end of the day they took away a toggle that allowed you to remove the latent models you don’t use and reclaim space you need. With Apple Intelligence disabled and ~8GB reclaimed, you could still OCR, still use Siri, still separate subject from background, translate text, so on and such. Now it’s all or nothing, shoving LLM weights into 128GB of storage for some people. There’s a better approach.
- layer8 12d ago
  CNET says that the OS auto-reclaims the space when needed: https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/how-to-turn-off-apple-intelligence/ https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/how-to-turn-...
  - iAMkenough 12d ago
    That’s actually more frustrating, since it qualifies with “that now-inactive space” after disabling Siri. To me that means if you go with the “nothing” route and disable Siri, the local latent models aren’t removed from storage until your device fills up, with the hope you enable Siri again. Akin to all of Microsoft's apps with disparate Windows features pre-installed and unable to be removed from your device except through Storage Sense.
  - dormento 10d ago
    > ...the OS auto-reclaims the space when needed I remember when your personal computer did exactly the things you asked. Now, it seems you have to trust on a third party so the computer does the things you "probably wanted". I must be getting old.
dzhiurgis 11d ago
If it uses local models, why I need to join waitlist?
- mingus88 11d ago
  That’s for Siri AI and other features which use private cloud compute
dormento 10d ago
> There is no actual feature called "Apple Intelligence", it's a marketing term for a handful of disparate features that they are applying everywhere. Just like "Microsoft Copilot" and "IBM Watson".

_boffin_ 12d ago

i really thought "Apple Intelligence" is the addition of data into Knowledge.db, but i guess not.

iAMkenough 12d ago

Yes, but at the end of the day they took away a toggle that allowed you to remove the latent models you don’t use and reclaim space you need. With Apple Intelligence disabled and ~8GB reclaimed, you could still OCR, still use Siri, still separate subject from background, translate text, so on and such. Now it’s all or nothing, shoving LLM weights into 128GB of storage for some people. There’s a better approach.

layer8 12d ago
CNET says that the OS auto-reclaims the space when needed: https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/how-to-turn-off-apple-intelligence/ https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/how-to-turn-...
- iAMkenough 12d ago
  That’s actually more frustrating, since it qualifies with “that now-inactive space” after disabling Siri. To me that means if you go with the “nothing” route and disable Siri, the local latent models aren’t removed from storage until your device fills up, with the hope you enable Siri again. Akin to all of Microsoft's apps with disparate Windows features pre-installed and unable to be removed from your device except through Storage Sense.
- dormento 10d ago
  > ...the OS auto-reclaims the space when needed I remember when your personal computer did exactly the things you asked. Now, it seems you have to trust on a third party so the computer does the things you "probably wanted". I must be getting old.

dzhiurgis 11d ago

If it uses local models, why I need to join waitlist?

mingus88 11d ago
That’s for Siri AI and other features which use private cloud compute

dormento 10d ago

> There is no actual feature called "Apple Intelligence", it's a marketing term for a handful of disparate features that they are applying everywhere. Just like "Microsoft Copilot" and "IBM Watson".