Playground AI App Autoinstalled, Ignored Setting and Also Added to Home Screen

Lady-Vi wrote:

@lobsterghost1

Apple made a corporate decision to install and turn on by default Apple AI and associated apps beginning with iOS 18.3. This bloats OS system storage on devices and requires multiple steps to disable and even if disabled, still bloats system storage. I followed your link. There is no option to provide feedback on iOS, only individual apps. AI is a resource hog and Apple should not require its installation as part of the OS. AI is also environmentally awful as the computing power needed to support it is huge.

This link will let you provide feedback to Apple --> Product Feedback - Apple

Choose whatever device you'd like to comment on.

As to your other points, arguing them with me or anyone else makes no difference here. Does Apple Intelligence take up space on your iPhone? Yes. Do you have to use it? No. That is all anyone here can offer you. We aren't apple. We don't own iOS, iPadOS or MacOS. Apple does and Apple can do what they want with their operating system. If this isn't acceptable to you, you can always buy other products. But then they too have operating systems you can't control or delete certain features from, so I'm not sure what that would accomplish.

Yes it was a cartoon image, generated FROM a photo of her.

It just feels very tyrannical to me.

Ssnellenberger88 wrote:

I don’t think you are overreacting. If I want an app, I’ll download it. I don’t like the idea of them adding apps or enabling features without my permission.

Feel free to share your thoughts with Apple here --> Product Feedback - Apple

There are a lot of apps, and features built into MacOS you cannot remove. And honestly, not being rude here, but Apple doesn't need your permission to add things to MacOS. You as the user can simply choose to not use them. That's how software works and has always worked, regardless if it comes from Apple, Microsoft, Google or anyone else.

A final note. Image Playground CAN be deleted from iPhone/iPad. It cannot be deleted from Mac/Macbook.

frankmcgrady wrote:

However, the app icon was added to my Home Screen despite having set new apps only appear in the App Library.

That setting only applies to apps you select and download from the App Store. It doesn't apply to new parts of iOS.

Jaimeleem wrote:

I’m so mad about this. It appeared on my daughter’s iPad. We are very careful what they have access to, and the reason I found out about it was that she sent me an ai generated photo of herself.

Image Playground doesn't generate photos. It only creates cartoon-like pictures. If your daughter is sending AI-generated photos, she's using something else.

SoMDRedinPA wrote:

It still doesn’t sit right with me and many others! My app had a photo of a kitty on it and they called it “Playground” for crying out loud! What was I supposed to think this was??

Cartoon pictures of cats make you think adult entertainment? Really? That's almost funny.

SoMDRedinPA wrote:

Ok not what rock you have been living under the past 20 years or so… but having a photo of a bunny (as in Playboy bunny) and calling it playground is about as suggestive of an adult website as you can get.

This is a user-to-user technical support forum. Apple doesn't read here. If you want Apple to know your thoughts, you can use the Feedback page that was linked to above.

P.S. Neither of the people who responded to you are under 60.

agree that user support forum isn’t best way to provide feedback to Apple. However, there isn’t an option to provide feedback iOS, which was my point. Feedback on devices (which I did) will most likely be ignored as it’s not a device issue. So, does anyone know where to submit feedback on iOS?

Yes, we can read what's coming with a new update. But most of it is couched in "isn't-this-great" language so you really have to pay attention. And, still, you do NOT GET A CHOICE. I guess this is the age of autocracy, so anything goes.

Idris -- You can only get by for a little while without update because stuff quits working right. If you call Apple for help, they will not deal with you unless you update. Feels like a trap cuz we old people don't do tech well

RUdeliberatelyconfusingme wrote:

lobsterghost1 -- It's really not helpful to insult someone who does not understand tech and is almost 80 years old. It is hard for us. Please chill.

I was NOT insulting you in any way. Sorry if you took it that way.

RUdeliberatelyconfusingme wrote:

Feels like a trap cuz we old people don't do tech well

Nonsense. There are certainly people who don't "do tech well." Very often, it's because they've simply never learned (or have resisted learning). But age has nothing to do with it. Some of the most knowledgeable people in this community are not just "almost 80," they are well beyond it. And they are providing valuable advice to all of us. You do yourself and everyone else who is "old" a disservice by using that as reason not to learn.

I'm not eighty yet but I am old enough to collect Social Security.

IdrisSeabright wrote:

RUdeliberatelyconfusingme wrote:

Feels like a trap cuz we old people don't do tech well

Nonsense. There are certainly people who don't "do tech well." Very often, it's because they've simply never learned (or have resisted learning). But age has nothing to do with it. Some of the most knowledgeable people in this community are not just "almost 80," they are well beyond it. And they are providing valuable advice to all of us. You do yourself and everyone else who is "old" a disservice by using that as reason not to learn.

I'm not eighty yet but I am old enough to collect Social Security.

Yep. In my 70s here and doing just fine with technology.

I’ve just found the app installed too! I don’t want unnecessary apps especially not AI .. There was no warning whatsoever about adding anything. Apple should give people the option to add apps rather than forcing them onto iPhones.. bad show