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Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back

562 points · 376 comments · privacyisntdead

  1. ryandrake · · focus · HN ↗
    Reminds me of all the de-crufting you've always needed to do when you install Windows. Looks like we've gotten to the point on macOS too, where you need to run third party scripts on a new OS installation to gain back control of your system resources and remove unwanted crapware.
    1. 2muchcoffeeman · · focus · HN ↗
      On windows you got garbage like trial versions of Blah software.

      This is a fully functioning feature that people don’t like for what ever reason.

      1. penskymaterial · · focus · HN ↗
        This simply isn't true.

        Trial versions are installed by the OEMs so that's not a Windows problem.

        Microsoft has given you the tools (Group Policy) for the last 25+ years to customize most of this.

        My last install of Windows 11 was shockingly frustrating but with a little patience and discipline it's customized to Windows 7 levels of sanity using nothing but out of the box tools. Shockingly, it works better than writing angry blog posts about it.

        They have to give you a choice because they have surly enterprise customers who would be upset otherwise.

        1. ericmay · · focus · HN ↗
          It is a Windows problem because Microsoft allowed OEMs to do it and when you bought a computer, it included Windows and from the end user perspective Windows thus included this software.

          > Microsoft has given you the tools (Group Policy) for the last 25+ years to customize most of this.

          Most people including me don’t know what this is and more importantly they just don’t care. The frame of reference is “I buy (vendor) laptop and Windows comes with all this stupid stuff I have to uninstall”. It is never “I bought Windows and I just use the Group Policy to do XYZ, and then….”.

          1. darkwater · · focus · HN ↗
            > It is a Windows problem because Microsoft allowed OEMs to do it and when you bought a computer

            No, it is not. It's still an OEM problem and you can go with another vendor (Framework for example) that doesn't do that. Actually in this case Microsoft does a better thing than Apple because you can actually choose as a consumer which vendor to use for your HW.

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