From those brave souls using any of the betas which Apple Intelligence I’m interested to know about the setting or more likely multiple settings - necessary to disable these features.
What’s possible?
I’m assuming on the Mac there will be even more scope for removal, even if this requires the terminal.
This isn’t like Stage Manager or one of those cases where you can not use a feature. This has the potential to consume resources and would benefit from being disabled completely for personal preference or to comply with corporate IT policies.
I can’t answer your question, But this is really interesting to me.
Personal preference I can completely see, and I can understand IT departments who (out of habit) may want to disable unnecessary features, but so many products are coming which include AI, whether you want it or not, that disabling AI features makes any IT team like King Canute trying to hold back the sea. They’re being risk averse rather than risk aware.
Especially with Apple’s privacy stance on AI, I’d think that Apple would very much be on the safer end of this.
IT teams are going to have to get on board with this sooner or later.
Well, I don’t have Sequoia installed, but I found this dialog box from System Settings from a YouTube video. There are toggles to turn off most everything.
I think this may be due to Continuity features that allow you to copy and paste stuff between your mobile phone and computers, but it sounds like they are throwing the baby with the bathwater as Continuity features require matching iCloud accounts. The way to go would be either to procure corporate iCloud accounts or disable iCloud altogether on the work device.
I’ve had this on previous work phones as well. I think some of the concern is copying information out of a protected/encrypted system into one that isn’t (SMS, for instance).
I know any single one of us here could easily find ways around that, or someone determined could just copy the information. But my guess is they decided that little friction was worth it.
Thank goodness they seem to have gone away from that restriction. I can do like 75% of my job from my phone now (albeit slowly) thanks to having my email, Teams, OneDrive, and OneNote on my work phone.
There are certain industries in which all communication needs to be tracked and auditable. Disabling copy/paste or screenshotting is done not to be punative, but because it helps to keep data in approved, secure, yet controlled platforms. I happen to be in one of those industries (finance) and we’re constantly on the edge of getting fined by regulators because people still hold business discussions with their clients in WhatsApp/iMessage.
For us at least, our firm mostly moved away from corporate managed devices and towards BYOD with MS365. If I try to copy something out of that area (e.g Outlook to Drafts), the clipboard gets replaced with a generic text saying “this is forbidden”. It sucks, and it means I can’t work as effectively, but there are privacy and regulatory reasons for it.
I remember complaining to Apple years ago when an early Apple Intelligence, Spotlight, went from only searching locally to doing internet searches as well, by default. This was not good for security as all searches would be accessible from outside the company. I don’t know if they ever disabled that by default. Likewise Apple Intelligence, at least some of it, should be disabled by default if Apple were really interested in privacy.
It’s not about the privacy for me. I just think generative AI is a plague and should be doused in gasoline and burnt. I don’t want it on my phone, and I don’t want to read people sending me AI generated messages.
