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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. devilsdata · · focus · HN ↗
        The AI in Siri is actually really good. I can ask it something like "what is Judy's favourite food?" and it will do a full search of the databases of all the default apps and find that info.

        As for the other AI features such as autocomplete, memoji, notification summaries... I'm really not a big fan at all.

        1. idinnoaname · · focus · HN ↗
          And poor Judy thought for just a moment that someone actually cared enough about her to remember her favourite food. Sorry Judy, youre just not that important I suppose. :|
          1. devilsdata · · focus · HN ↗
            I have ADHD and am not going to remember a lot about Judy. But I will write down the things that I know she likes in a note, and I'll occasionally ask Siri to list what Judy likes when I'd like to do something nice to her.

            ADHD and memory problems suck :(

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