While waiting for April and the launch of Apple Intelligence in Europe, users have a little time to clean up their smartphones and tablets. Because these functions end up gaining weight…
Apple Intelligence will cross the Atlantic in April, as the Apple company announced last October. These generative AI functions are already available in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. To be completely complete, it is already possible to experiment with them today in Europe, using a Mac (or by tinkering on the iPhone or iPad).
An ever heavier AI
This “official” European launch will also be an opportunity for Apple to offer its AI in different languages, including French. Currently only English is supported. This will give you a little time to prepare! If the most advanced functions of Apple Intelligence are processed by Apple servers via the Private Cloud Compute solution, a good part of them are managed locally, which means that a certain package of resources must be installed on iPhone, iPad or Mac.
As Apple adds more AI features, the space these features take up becomes larger and larger. It was 4 GB with iOS 18.1, it is now 7 GB with iOS 18.2 and macOS 15.2, as Apple explains in this support sheet! The latest version of the operating systems has activated quite a few new features, such as Genmoji, Visual Intelligence, Image Playground, or even the integration of ChatGPT in Siri. And obviously, that ends up taking a toll.
The nature of this local processing requires downloading them on each of your devices, you must therefore multiply these 7 GB by the number of Apple products you own. It doesn’t seem like much, but the iPhone 15 Pro, the first smartphone compatible with Apple Intelligence, and the iPhone 16 are sold with 128 GB of storage by default.
And it’s far from over, since new Apple Intelligence functions will be added over the coming months, including a brain change for Siri planned with iOS 18.4. The weight of AI is therefore unlikely to become lighter… The only solution: do not use these functions! Which fortunately is still possible.
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