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Comment by cdrnsf | Hacker News Reader

I hope they keep the switch allowing you to disable Apple Intelligence.

You could keep using an iphone 14. It's the age cutoff for AI support.

This is my biggest concern. I've only stuck with Apple during this AI nonsense era because the parental/screentime controls allow to me completely shut it down, and I've never toggled it on in the Siri/AI options. It took a while but the 7GB they initially stole from me for the AI nonsense I'm not using eventually cleared itself out of storage.

I already have Siri limited to manual activation only. If they force all of this into Siri and I can't prevent AI models from actually installing their gubby hands all over the phone then that's it for me.

I didn't see it touched on, but I'm hoping improved storage management is included in the update. My system has > 20% storage used by "system storage" and in total nearly half the device storage is used by ios and is outside my control. Supposedly some of this stuff is just cache data and there's no way to adjust what data gets cached or when it gets purged aside from rebooting. Handling for large files is also hit or miss and could use some updates. I didn't even realize some of that was AI stuff I might not even be using.

Yeah file management in general is still incredibly rough around the edges. I would still like to be able to simply grab files from my phone via a connected linux computer, but apple will never let me have that one.

>no way to adjust what data gets cached or when it gets purged aside from rebooting

Unfortunately the only current ways to pull this off is to either artificially move the current time years forward so it hits a time gate and dumps the cached files, or use enough space on your iPhone to force it to dump the useless cached files then delete whatever you used to take up space temporarily.

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