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Ask HN: Is it impossible to disable Siri on macOS 27?

154 points · 88 comments · semidror

  1. wpm · · focus · HN ↗
    Try disabling any of the launchd tasks related to it, odds are theres a service that starts at boot/login regardless of any user-facing setting that do nothing if they're all turned off (just like iCloud related daemons).

    Odds are you'll probably run into something that requires you to disable SIP, like I did when I got tired of mediaanalysisd eating up CPU cycles on a 2018 Mac mini.

    1. semidror · · focus · HN ↗
      Thanks, I believe this is what the debloat script mentioned in my post does. I manually executed the `launchctl bootout` and `launchctl disable` commands on all Siri and AI-related services in the <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;OleksandrKrupko&#x2F;mac-os-debloat&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;debloat" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;OleksandrKrupko&#x2F;mac-os-debloat&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;... script, but the &quot;Siri&quot; process (&quot;Siri AI.app&quot;) still keeps running even after restarting.

      The Siri AI.app is read-only, so I could not even remove it. But perhaps it would be possible to boot into Recovery, mount the system partition as rw and delete the Siri AI.app from the filesystem?

      P.S. I did also disable mediaanalysisd and photoanalysisd, and those are NOT running. However, the Siri AI.app does keep running...

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