What is Android System Intelligence and what happens if you turn it off? - Engadget

This background Android component quietly handles several features you probably use every day. If you dig deep enough into your Android phone's app list, you might come across Android System Intelligence, which sounds both extremely important and impressively vague. Of course, there is a Disable button close by. Android System Intelligence (ASI) is a Google system component that enables a suite of contextual features throughout Android. On Pixel phones (where it has a particularly long resume), those include Live Caption, Now Playing, Smart Autorotate, Screen Attention, app predictions, smarter copy and paste and notification actions. The lineup varies by device. ASI runs within Android's Private Compute Core, which was introduced back in 2021 with Android 12. Its machine-learning features don't have direct network access, so Private Compute Services serves as a bridge when they need updates from the cloud. Google says ASI and Private Compute Services collect crash logs, diagnostics and device identifiers for app analytics, while usage and diagnostics collection can be switched off. ASI is not an app you use. It's the plumbing behind the features you use. Now Playing can detect mus