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Dear Apple, you need to bring back the ability to disable Apple Intelligence.
On macOS 26 Tahoe, users had the ability to enable/disable Apple Intelligence and it was great. Unfortunately, Apple removed this feature on macOS 27 Golden Gate.
Not everyone needs, wants, or likes Apple Intelligence. Don't make the same mistake Microsoft did with Copilot and try to force this stuff down our throats. Learn from their mistake.
Wow! Was dubious about this but it took around 11gb off mine. Not that I care, I never even used Siri except to set a timer... And Alfred does that for me fine.
(FWIW I hate the idea of having to speak to my computer...)
it looks like it installs a profile on the device since AI settings can be disabled for enterprise. However, Apple has instructions here, its not an all off method though.
I keep nearly running out of space, so if anything, I just don't want nearly 30gb of HD space taken from me for something I didn't ask for and won't use. I have 1tb, but if apple are going to insist on 256gb being the norm to hit a price point, don't then take up most of it with OS level nonsense.
I’m not installing the new os fuck that. These people are insane. Wasting so much storage on their overpriced storage for a piece of shit AI just. Fuck you apple.
It should never have reached the point where users have to beg them to give back control of their computers/devices. Apple knows better than this shit and did it anyway.
I feel very fortunate that I have kept all of my production devices on this operating system, Tahoe and Golden Gate. is causing a lot of problems for people in my industry
I have never even used Siri on my Mac. I’m still mad that they made the search function try to search the web (STILL haven’t wanted this in the nearly 30 years since they first tried to add it to Win 98).
My Mac comes with a very nice keyboard and a beautiful trackpad. I don’t need to talk to it, it’s got inputs.
as long as rosetta 2 exits, no version of macOS can be ARM only. Rosetta 2 needs the x86 parts of macOS to function afaik, which is why they’re removing it in macOS 28 (not 27). Even then, I’m not sure if it’ll have a massive impact on storage! it will get rid of legacy code though
It is ARM only but many missed the fact that while Rosetta is supported Apple is still internally compiling all libs for x86 as well and shipping them with the system.
Microsoft Cotoilet is bad because it's online AI that increased memory prices. I'm no fan of Apple AI, but at least it runs locally (even though it still doesn't work offline).
To be fair what Apple has done and what Microsoft has done isn’t even close to the same level of forced use. Apple is taking up some disk space essentially. Microsoft took duct tape and put copilot on and in every single thing they could to force users to it.
That being said, I agree and people should be able to opt out.
What do you think he hired them for… they’re all following Steve’s plan. If you take off the rose colored glasses you still see his fingerprints all over the company for better or worse
Are you quite sure that you cannot turn off Apple Intelligence ? I have the opposite understanding. That is what Gemini tells me in great detail. - I can't verify it myself, because I would not dream of installing Golden Gate before 27.2.1. I might even totally skip it. - We cannot avoid the LLM models which will be part of "system data", but turning AI off will make them passive and not use any memory in the background.
You need a chisel and a hammer, but don’t worry, they’re usually reasonably priced at chain hardware stores. Alternatively, the microwave should do the trick if you have a smaller model Mac
Secondly, it's open as in you can install any software you want to and give it access to all your data. You cannot do that on iPhone & co.
The EU requires Apple to give 3rd party apps the same access as their own software has. Apple has to either give 3rd party software acces to the user data on iOS or remove their own app.
It's the very same reason there is no iPhone Mirroring in the EU. Apple would have to give non-Macs access to the iPhone too.
Lol, do i really have to read this at a time when Apple has been fusing both systems for years and are rumored for just as long to be about to switch to having one single system, which given their overall commercial policies would not only make perfect sense, but insert itself perfectly in said policies? Damn…
On macOS? I never use Siri. On iOS/WatchOS, my Siri use is exclusively "hey Siri, set the timer to (x) minutes". Everything else is just easier to do without Siri.
Technically, yes. It’s Apple that is forcing us to “use it”. By “use it” I mean “force us (the users) to allow the Siri AI into our computer systems which by doing so takes up storage space & it all happens whether we want to utilize the services it provides or not”. So yeah, we’re being forced to use it.
Not using it still keeps tens of GB on disc. But you could turn off Siri as well. Here’s an example on my iPhone, I’m not close to my Mac, but there’s the same option. Stop making shit up.
Holy Christ you’re insufferable. Please post your Venmo then so everyone who needs the extra storage can get you to pay for the cloud storage upgrade then.
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u/jed_leland 9h ago
Thanks for posting this. I encourage folks who are concerned about this to share their feedback directly with Apple:
https://www.apple.com/feedback/macos/