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

Dru3 wrote:

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

You don't own iOS. Apple does. You merely have a license to use iOS. And Apple doesn't need to warn you, nor ask for your permission to add anything they want to iOS.

If you want to tell Apple what you think they should do, you are welcome to provide feedback to them here --> Feedback - iPhone - Apple

Overreacting? Yes. Did iOS 18.3 install Apple Intelligence on your iPhone? Yes. Do you have to keep it? No. If you don't want Apple Intelligence on your iPhone, turn it of in Settings > Apple Intelligence & Siri. Going forward, Apple Intelligence is part of iOS for eligible devices. It's Apple's software, not ours. We only have a license to use the software on our phones.

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.

Not in my world.... Yes, definitely funny. But I don't spend a lot of time being concerned about adult websites. I've never landed on one by accident but if I did, I'd just leave and not hyperventilate.

@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.

PrettygirlEmmy wrote:

Please bring Ai playground on 10 gen ipad

No one here on this user to user ONLY forum can do that. And Apple isn't going to do that, because Playground is bundled in Apple Intelligence and a 10th Generation iPad is not capable of running Apple Intelligence.

YNWATIA wrote:

My issue is this - at least give forewarning & make a separate point that apps are being installed with update. That way users will not be blindsided & react like many already have been doing. I never saw anything about this before update. Not even the hype before release.

But you were given forewarning. With EVERY iOS update on the update page, just below the update now button is a list of what the update contains, called Release Notes. Most people don't read them, so you clearly didn't either. But had you read them, you would have known what was in the update.

lobsterghost1 wrote:

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

If I recall, there are a couple of here folks around ninety. Steve Jobs would be seventy this year. Had he lived, I imagine he would still be coming up with interesting ideas.

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.

Can I at least get rid of it advertising itself on my left-hand sidebar?

Thank you. I just used that link to make my comment about the Playground.

Please bring Ai playground on 10 gen ipad