[peatmoss]

I upgraded to an iPhone 16 in part because I was interested in the AI augments to iOS. My assumption was that Apple was likely to do something tasteful, and probably not nuclear-level bad in terms of privacy.

I've since disabled everything AI. My feeling is that my phone is much snappier without. Text summary features are pretty bad—in one case a summary of a text thread led me to believe my dad was having an acute health crisis when in fact it was a fairly benign discussion of news from doctors. Even custom emoji, which could have been fun, are simply bad.

Meanwhile some basic iOS features like "mute all notifications from this particular text thread" have been broken for me for several months.

[karlgkk]

Their ai summary really eats shit when it comes to slang heavy, short messages.

It’d be genuinely useful if it kicked on in threads with high amounts of unread messages