Urgent warning to millions of iPhone users as Apple turns on 'dangerous' feature automatically

Artificial quality (AI) features are present turned connected by default connected iPhone 16 and iPhone 15 Pro/Max devices, and truthful Apple Intelligence pulls accusation from apps and tack enactment wrong them

iPhone users person been warned astir a "dangerous" diagnostic enabled automatically connected immoderate Apple devices pursuing a bundle update.

The rollout of iOS 18.3 sees artificial quality (AI) features connected iPhone 16 and iPhone 15 Pro/Max devices run arsenic default. It utilized to beryllium the lawsuit that users had to power these connected manually.

Not lone does Apple Intelligence propulsion accusation from apps and tack enactment wrong them, the technology requires loads of retention to bash so. Tech experts warned that the AI strategy volition instrumentality up 7GB, careless what instrumentality it is moving on.

And immoderate experts person called the AI strategy "dangerous," peculiarly successful notation to its Notification Summaries feature. This diagnostic uses AI to condense aggregate notifications from the aforesaid pome into a single, abbreviated summary "to marque them much succinct and easier to read," according to Apple.

But connected respective occasions, Notification Summaries has misconstrued notifications, generating misleading oregon wholly inaccurate quality headlines. Petros Iosifidis, a prof successful media argumentation astatine City University successful London, told BBC News that determination are imaginable advantages to this benignant of feature," but the exertion is not determination yet and determination is simply a existent information of spreading disinformation."

If you downloaded iOS 18.3, but bash not privation the AI strategy turned on, you volition person to manually alteration the default setting. To bash this, unfastened the Settings app, scroll down and prime Apple Intelligence & Siri.

Then, toggle disconnected Apple Intelligence and corroborate "Turn Off Apple Intelligence" erstwhile prompted. Apple Intelligence, released successful December, is an artificial quality strategy that is integrated into the newest iPhone models. It packs a suite of caller AI-powered features and capabilities into your iPhone to streamline mundane tasks, according to Apple.

Apple has since disabled the diagnostic for quality and amusement notifications, saying that is its moving to hole the issue. Notification Summaries tin inactive summarize different types of notifications, similar your messages. And it has been known to messiness that up too.

Chip Hallett, information privateness aficionado and writer of The Ultimate Privacy Playbook, has warned that Apple Intelligence tin entree delicate accusation stored successful your apps.

"Apple Intelligence is going to beryllium learning however you usage your banking apps, your fiscal apps, and your determination maps," Mr Hallett said. The Mirror has contacted Apple for comment.