The latest Apple software updates can have an unexpected consequence on certain devices, he reported. When iOS 18.3.1, iPad 18.3.1 and MacOS Sequoia 15.3.1 were published on Monday, February 10, it seems that there was a surprising result: the Apple Intelligence options previously deactivated returned to life.
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With the version of the previous iPhone software, iOS 18.3, Apple automatically turned on Apple Intelligence, but it was a simple decision to deactivate this. However, you expected what remains deactivated when a new update has been installed, right?
Some devices (Mac, iPads or iPhones) have displayed a welcome screen after updating the latest software, with Apple Intelligence reactivated, according to the developer of software Jeff Johnson.
“Some people who had previously deactivated the Apple Intelligence in MacOS 15.3 and iOS 18.3 saw it reactivated after the update to MacOS 15.3.1 and iOS 18.3.1 today,” said Johnson.
“In fact, I personally have two Mac Apple Silicon Apple performing MacOS Sequoia, and after updating the two Macs at 15.3.1, Apple Intelligence was reactivated on my MacBook Pro but not on my Mac Mini. The difference in behavior seems to depend on the question of whether the configuration assistant and the welcome screen are displayed after updating. On my MacBook Pro, but not my Mac Mini, I saw the configuration assistant, “said Johnson.
It is not clear at this stage if this situation is widespread, in particular on iPhones, and it seems very likely that it is a bug, rather than a deliberate movement of Apple to reactivate something that you have deliberately extinguished .
Johnson refers to this decision as “hostile user and boring”, although it is probably the case that the bug, because it is surely what it is, will be quickly corrected.
And deactivating it (again) is a simple action, with a few clicks in the settings of the iPhone or iPad, or in the system settings on the Mac, so I would always recommend updating to the new software.
This did not happen everywhere: Macrumors reports that a Mac has given Apple’s intelligence, but two iPads and an iPad did not do so.
More as we have it.
