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by officeplant 3 days ago
Apple continues to innovate in new and excited ways, because I never though I would speak the words "I guess I'm sticking with ios26 until the end of security updates."

Unless I can continue to neuter AI, and keep the older siri this is my last iOS.
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desolate_muffin 3 days ago
As opposed to the AI-free operating system, Android?
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officeplant 3 days ago
What makes you think I would go crawling back to a worse AI hellscape?

Dumbphones exist, degoogled phones exist. If it weren't for the USA's telcom differences a fairphone with PostmarketOS would be great. I enjoy postmarketOS on my pinephone, the phone's hardware is just far too shit for daily driving.

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groundzeros2015 3 days ago
What do you want?
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officeplant 3 days ago
The ability to continue to completely lock down Apple Intelligence to the point where it even free's up the ~7gb it takes up on the phone. Currently this works in iOS 26 as long as I never accidentally toggle it back on via Apples dark pattern attempts that happen every few software updates.

Also for the ability to continue using Siri without Apple Intelligence would be nice. I rarely need to use Siri so it's already set for manual triggering with the power button long press only. But if Siri goes into the AI shitter then I'll just wholesale disable it.

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