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Turn off and restrict access to Apple Intelligence features on Mac

353 points · 223 comments · alwillis

  1. bflesch · · focus · HN ↗
    Funny how Apple has reached the crapware maturity level that Microsoft users are quite familiar with: After first boot, go through a long list of things to deactivate so that one can experience at least some feeling of agency and privacy when using your own hardware.
    1. throw0101c · · focus · HN ↗
      > After first boot, go through a long list of things to deactivate so that one can experience at least some feeling of agency and privacy when using your own hardware.

      The difference is that you can actually not set these things up: with Windows you often have to choice. Macs allow you to not have an iCloud account and run just fine without them, whereas to avoid a Microsoft cloud account there are magic CLI incantations that have to be invoked. And once you say "no", Apple generally leaves you alone.

      I don't mind a bit of 'upsell' or informing (new) users of available offerings, as long as I get a choice.

      1. butlike · · focus · HN ↗
        The issue with iCloud is that before you even know it, you're paying $9.99/mo. Since 200gb is quite low, the next tier up is 2tb for $9.99, but then you're essentially locked in. I can't view the iCloud price tiers as anything other than predatory.
        1. officeplant · · focus · HN ↗
          But 50GB is $0.99 and I'm only really paying for it since I have a bunch of their private email addresses in use. iPhone backup with just the essentials I trust them with is less than 2GB.

          I don't know how I would even begin to fill the 50GB plan since I don't trust any cloud storage provider with pictures and videos.

          1. butlike · · focus · HN ↗
            The pictures start to take up a non-zero amount of space. Also video shot with the Camera.app gets lumped into the "Photos" partition of iCloud, so it becomes hard to separate the large video files from the countless photos you have.
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