The picture above is a mockup of what happened this morning as I didn’t take a screenshot.
I was browsing Wikipedia when I noticed a round, “Apple Intelligence”-like icon hovering over the web page.
When I clicked on it to see if I could dismiss it, it disappeared and never came back.
What’s super weird is that there is absolutely no documentation on Apple’s website, yet it didn’t feel part of the webpage itself as it very clearly spilled over the edge of the page when navigating back.
Does anyone know what it is? Thanks!
I’m sad that I read this as Weird Al icon and didn’t see his face and glorious curly hair
The logo looks like a stylized interpretation of his glorious curly hair.
I spent so long trying to figure out how that icon looked like Weird AL
I’m too white and nerdy to have thought about that.
Dare to be stupid!
Do you have Apple Intelligence enabled on your phone? I believe that icon is used to feed it context? I’ve not used it yet, but that seems like the intended purpose?
Yes but I don’t use it and have no idea how to activate it anyway
You can (and probably should) disable it: Settings > Apple Intelligence & Siri > toggle Apple Intelligence off.
True.
First I just want to reproduce this behavior to understand it though.
Why?
Why would someone want their UI cluttered with a feature they’ve no interest in?
Privacy
Such as? Almost all of the processing is done on device.
I opened safari to Wikipedia and I don’t see that icon. AFAIK there isn’t a feature that adds a floating icon like that.
I think it’s a browser extension.
That’s the point. I can’t reproduce this behavior so I can’t understand what the hell this was.
The only extension I use is AdGuard.
Heads up, you can change over to uBlock Origin Lite. In case you haven’t heard
Nice!
It’s so weird, I’ve watched all the Apple announcement videos, all of the “whats new” videos, and i’ve been beta testing iOS 26 and 26.1. (I am an iOS developer) I have never seen this specific UI anywhere. I’ve spent the last 30 minutes trying to reproduce and I can’t make it happen (I even installed AdGuard to check).
Either you got some unexpected extension installed, you hit on some Safari bug, or you somehow found a feature that was not fully released yet.
just weird.
Honestly I don’t understand either. I can’t find anything remotely similar to this.
I’m just hoping it’s not some kind of exploit hidden as a “new” UI component.
What happens when you tap the icon?
