The survey was conducted by SellCell, a site with a blog covering gadget trends. Its respondents were over 2,000 smartphone users, over half owning an iPhone with an AI-supported model. The iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 16 / iPhone 16 Pro are the only Apple phones offering Apple Intelligence right out of the box.

AI on smartphones, from Gemini on Android to Apple Intelligence on iPhones in iOS 18.1 and later. And yet despite massive amounts of AI development and marketing on the part of Apple and Google, not everyone wants to deal with artificially smart features: CNET found that 25% of smartphone owners are not interested at all,

iPhone users showed relatively higher interest in mobile AI than Samsung users as almost half (47.6 percent) of iPhone users reported AI features as a “very” or “somewhat” important deciding factor when buying a new phone, versus 23.7 percent of Samsung users who said the same.

Apple got into the AI race with Apple Intelligence while Google empowered Gemini with more and more AI. Jensen Huang’s Nvidia powered the AI push whereas X emerged as more than a social media platform.

The addition of AI features like Apple Intelligence are not impressive to consumers, a survey of Apple and Samsung smartphone owners claims, but the timing of the survey may have skewed the results.

A quarter of smartphone owners (25%) don't find AI features helpful, 45% are reluctant to pay a monthly subscription fee for AI capabilities, and 34% of them have privacy concerns. A little over half (52%) of smartphone owners have no interest in purchasing a foldable phone.

Phone users have largely avoided the Apple Intelligence features released prior to iOS 18.2, a new survey suggests. A survey conducted