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Turn off and restrict access to Apple Intelligence features on Mac

353 points · 223 comments · alwillis

  1. VCFundedGenYer · · focus · HN ↗
    I want the disk space taken from the models back.

    I will never touch this garbage and would rather use the disk space I purchased to be used for my purposes, not the industry's pointless fad bubble endeavors.

    1. mort96 · · focus · HN ↗
      Absolutely 100%. Now I'm very biased against this "AI" stuff in general, but even fans of "AI" can't want this, right? I mean I know some people who are heavy "AI" users and they all either have a setup with Cursor/Codex/Zed/VSCode/whatever or their preferred local model, they'd never ever want to use "whatever Apple happens to ship with the OS". Same with the model Google bundled into their browser, growing Chrome from roughly 200MB to over 4GB. Who's the target audience here?

      It's investors isn't it.

      1. logancbrown · · focus · HN ↗
        You can't imagine a singular person and reason who would want an improved Siri?
        1. mort96 · · focus · HN ↗
          On their laptop? No, not really. I guess the selling point is that your computer now suggests file names for you?
          1. wat10000 · · focus · HN ↗
            The selling point is being able to say things like "remind me about the next early release from school the night before" and it'll dig up the info from your emails and then create the reminder.
            1. burningChrome · · focus · HN ↗
              I had better success with earlier versions. For me Siri has regressed so much and had become so unreliable, that having to constantly repeat or rephrase or delete whatever nonsense it was doing was so frustrating, I stopped using it years ago.

              Its quite the paradox when Apple is pushing Apple Intelligence so hard, yet their assistant that's been around for 15 years can't do even basic things now.

              1. EricE · · focus · HN ↗
                And this right here is why I think Apple should have renamed the new stuff to something else. Go into Settings/Siri, enable Apple Intelligence (you will probably have to join the waitlist), give it a day or two to re-index and then try.

                I think you will be astonished at the difference in behavior. It's night and day.

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