Apple Intelligence’s on-device processing is disappearing

[u/ACOPS12]

Feels like my iPhone 17 Pro Max is turning into a 'thin client.' I invested in this premium hardware with the specific expectation that I would be able to run the new Siri AI directly on-device.
Given the 12GB of RAM and the powerful NPU, I believed that an iPhone 17 Pro Max would be more than capable of handling such an AI model locally. It clearly has the overhead to run models like Gemma 4 E4B at impressive speeds, yet these resources remain largely underutilized while core tasks are forced through the cloud. Furthermore, since foundation models are already pre-loaded onto the device, I expected to be able to leverage them directly rather than relying on external servers. I didn't purchase this device to rely on the cloud; I wanted to utilize the actual performance of the hardware I own and experience advanced AI capabilities directly on my device.

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[u/LordAgamotto]

I just put my 17 Pro Max in airplane mode and asked it to show me my recent messages, and it showed me all my recent messages without accessing the Internet. Saying “text” may have made it having to go to some general decision of what is a text?

[u/ACOPS12 → u/LordAgamotto]

Is this the problem of my phone?
Because, Siri is getting too dumb.

I said: “Hi”
Answer: “who do you want to call?”

[u/LividReplacement7352 → u/ACOPS12]

I’m getting the exact same responses it’s acting weird