Tell HN: iOS 27 Removed the Master Switch for Turning Apple Intelligence Off
Hacker News (66pts, 17 comments)·low signal
A September 14 Tell HN reports that the single toggle disabling all Apple Intelligence features in iOS 26 is gone in iOS 27, leaving users to disable each feature individually or route around it through Screen Time Content Restrictions, which one commenter says also kills CarPlay. Commenters point out the branding problem underneath: 'Apple Intelligence' covers disparate things like OCR, battery optimization and text classification, so there was never one coherent system to switch off. Reported on-device footprint runs 6-15GB, and the space is not reclaimed when features are disabled.