Apple Intelligence’s silent update that you might not even know about
With the latest iOS update, Apple Intelligence has quietly become active in every iPhone. Features like Visual Intelligence are being noticed by everyone, but the real AI is working silently in your phone system, where it does its job in the background without directly telling you.
- Apple Intelligence’s silent update that you might not even know about
- Apple Intelligence and Siri setting is your phone’s hidden control center
- What happens if you manually turn off all these suggestions
- Convenience becomes less but control increases
- A strong step towards privacy
- Your phone can still be smart without AI
Even now many users do not know that their iPhone is turning their usage into AI-based patterns and creating suggestions from it using default settings.
Apple Intelligence and Siri setting is your phone’s hidden control center
If you go to your iPhone settings you will see a new section below every app called Apple Intelligence and Siri. In it there is an option called Learn from this App which is enabled by default. This setting allows Siri to access your app usage and create smart suggestions.
In the same section you will also find a few other toggles through which you can decide:
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Whether the app should appear as a suggestion on the home screen
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Whether it should show as a suggestion in the search bar
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Whether the app appears in widgets with smart alerts
What happens if you manually turn off all these suggestions
When you manually turn off these AI toggles for every app your phone starts behaving differently
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The search bar starts showing random and mostly irrelevant apps
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The App Library which used to smartly show your most used apps on top now either shows them alphabetically or in a mixed-up way
This change can feel confusing in the beginning but it is the kind of detox that helps reduce your old dependency on the phone.
Convenience becomes less but control increases
When you are in a new place like a station or a new city your iPhone earlier used to smartly suggest Citymapper or train ticket apps. But once you turn off these suggestions the phone waits for your command instead of giving its own input.
The result is you start relying less on auto suggested apps and begin to control your usage more actively. Rarely used apps become a little more hidden and take effort to reach which naturally reduces your app addiction.
A strong step towards privacy
Apple already leads the industry in privacy standards but when you realize that apps were silently sharing data in the background through a setting you never noticed before taking back that control feels like a win.
You will feel like your phone is finally working under your rules without any hidden automation.
Your phone can still be smart without AI
AI based suggestions from Apple Intelligence feel useful but when you use your phone without them you realize that convenience and control do not always come together. This change reminds you that there was a time when we worked just fine without any AI help.
If you want to reset your phone habits then taking this small step of turning off AI suggestions can give you a major mental refresh.
In the next step you can think about reviewing your unnecessary subscriptions and using only one cloud storage service. Yes these cleanups feel boring but they help streamline your digital life.
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