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Apple Intelligence
Raised as a usability problem by 33 people on Hacker News over 3 years (2024–2026), in 23 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
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Switching off Siri in the UI doesn't disable itUnreviewed
20242026- Switching off Siri in the UI doesn't actually disable it2026-10-05
- Write with Siri button appears on every text selection, obstructing normal use2026-09-21
- Normal users can't tell what Apple Intelligence changed, so they think Siri is still bad2025-06-11
Apple Intelligence gets enabled without users choosing itUnreviewed
20242026- Apple repeatedly re-enables Apple Intelligence through dark-pattern prompts after updates, undoing the user's opt-out2026-06-08
- Onboarding pitches Apple Intelligence after every update, with only a fine-print skip option2025-12-01
- Apple Intelligence gets enabled on devices without users choosing it2025-02-11
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 34 complaints
- Switching off Siri in the UI doesn't actually disable it2026-10-05
- Write with Siri button appears on every text selection, obstructing normal use2026-09-21
- A popup keeps appearing and is driving the user crazy2026-09-21
- Consent prompt keeps returning and can't be permanently dismissed, so people eventually give in2026-09-17
- Screenshots now force a Temu-linked search instead of the old text selection2026-08-17
- Local model is slow, hallucinates, and overheats the phone2026-06-08
- Apple repeatedly re-enables Apple Intelligence through dark-pattern prompts after updates, undoing the user's opt-out2026-06-08
- Low contrast, buggy interface makes the built-in AI hard to use2026-04-03
- AI sometimes misinterprets requests, so taking a photo can fail unpredictably2026-02-05
- Onboarding pitches Apple Intelligence after every update, with only a fine-print skip option2025-12-01
- Writing tools replaced Look Up in the text pop-up, getting in the way2025-07-18
- Normal users can't tell what Apple Intelligence changed, so they think Siri is still bad2025-06-11
- Comment calls the feature a terrible UX without saying what goes wrong2025-04-16
- Apple Intelligence gets enabled on devices without users choosing it2025-02-11
- Must toggle off Siri separately in every app, including future installs2025-02-03
- Must individually turn off the feature in every app2025-02-01
- Features are placed prominently due to internal politics rather than user needs, cluttering the first screen2025-02-01
- Must disable Siri one by one in every app2025-02-01
- Settings badge looks like an update, with no clear way to dismiss it2025-02-01
- Forced on users with no clear way to decline; pushed in on OS updates2025-02-01
- Opt-out controls are deliberately hidden or hard to find, a dark pattern2025-02-01
- AI features are dark-patterned in, so users can't easily switch them off2025-02-01
- Repeated prompts push user to enable AI assistants they don't want2025-01-31
- Setup forces voice input with no skip option, blocking the user in a shared office2025-01-23
- Apple Intelligence is forced on across apps and must be disabled in each one2025-01-21
- Settings search results are dominated by Apple Intelligence items, burying what the user wants2025-01-13
- Image Playground errors on every prompt; email summaries show the wrong part of threads2024-12-16
- No option to summarise only stacked notifications, so single messages get summarised too2024-11-19
- Siri misunderstands simple requests like unit conversion and lacks context awareness2024-10-25
- Must disable it individually in each app's settings, repeated for every new install2024-08-05
- Product name makes it hard to search for2024-06-11
- Endless AI features add complexity and clutter the user experience2024-06-10
- Users must click extra confirmation every time to get better results2024-06-10
- Confusing when Siri hands off to ChatGPT and which features use it2024-06-10