I'm sad that I read this as Weird Al icon and didn't see his face and glorious curly hair
this post was submitted on 14 Nov 2025
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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.
~~What happens when you tap the icon?~~
Nvm I reread your post.
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.
Heads up, you can change over to uBlock Origin Lite. In case you haven’t heard
Nice!
Yep, definitely looks like the stock AI indicator. No idea how you made it show up there, but fwiw it doesn’t do anything in the places it’s supposed to show up either
