I just loaded iOS 18.2.1 and Mac OS 15.2. To my great disgust, these re-enabled Apple Intelligence. So far the stuff I’ve seen from Apple Intelligence has been frankly of no interest to me. I would expect Apple to respect my choice in this matter, and NOT CHANGE MY SETTINGS.
I would expect that too. But long experience has taught me that when Apple introduces a new feature, they tend to make sure it’s (re)enabled after early updates. You don’t want it because it’s of no interest to you, and yes, they should respect that. But they also are calculating that others may have turned the feature off because its initial rollout caused issues on their device or exhibited other undesirable behavior. Orrrrr…sometimes they overlook that an update shouldn’t reset all your preferences…
I, for one, completely respect you don’t want AI running on your devices.
That’s why I’ve never been a fan of changing the terminology from “Preferences” to “System Settings.”
It sounds worse for a company to change a user’s preferences than it does for it to change default system settings. Semantics matter.
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I suspect they also validate settings files and if they detect corruption, blow away the entire file, resetting its values back to defaults. I don’t know how often this might happen (I assume it would depend on how often settings-corrupting bugs occur) but it’s a behavior I would expect.
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