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Posted on January 20, 2025 at 02:45 CST by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

ISSUE 22.03 • 2025-01-20

PATCH WATCH

By Susan Bradley

Both Apple and Microsoft are providing updates and options that are unnecessary.

The good news for you Apple users is that the company is not taking a page out of Microsoft’s forced-change model and instead is letting us easily opt out of AI features. Clearly, it learned from its 2014 blunder — forcing the U2 album Songs of Innocence to iTunes on all iPhones.

When you receive a pop-up on your Apple device that supports Apple Intelligence, you get a “Not now” option that allows you to easily dismiss the request. For now, Apple’s AI is still somewhat limited and covers only writing, email, and Siri. More AI capabilities are to come later, but it’s good to see that we can easily opt out.

Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (22.03.0, 2025-01-20).
This story also appears in our public Newsletter.

Patch Watch 0x80070643, Apple Intelligence, BitLocker, Copilot, CVE-2025-21297, CVE-2025-21309, Device Encryption, Drive Encryption, KB5050411, Newsletters, Outlook (new), Patch Lady Posts

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