Apple Intelligence will cross the Atlantic in April, as announced by the Apple company last October. These generative AI functions are already available in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. To be perfectly 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 release its AI in different languages, including French. Currently, only English is supported. That will give you a little time to prepare! While the most advanced features of Apple Intelligence are processed by Apple's servers via the Private Cloud Compute solution, a good portion of them are managed locally, which means that a certain amount of resources must be installed on the iPhone, iPad, or Mac.
As Apple adds AI features, the space occupied by these features is increasingly important. It was 4GB with iOS 18.1, it is now 7GB with iOS 18.2 and macOS 15.2, as Apple explains in this support sheet! The latest version of the operating systems has enabled quite a few new features, such as Genmoji, Visual Intelligence, Image Playground, and the integration of ChatGPT into Siri. And of course, it ends up weighing heavily.
The nature of this local processing requires downloading them on each of your devices, so you have to multiply these 7GB by the number of Apple products you own. It may not seem like much, but the iPhone 15 Pro, the first smartphone compatible with Apple Intelligence, and the iPhone 16 are sold with 128GB of storage by default.
And it's far from over, since new Apple Intelligence functions will be added over the coming months, including a change of brain for Siri planned for iOS 18.4. The weight of AI is therefore not likely to lighten... The only solution: don't use these functions! Which is fortunately still possible.
Source: 9to5Mac
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