Commenter surfaces separate guide to disable Apple Intelligence on Mac
2 Sep 21 1:36 PM · 2d ago · 1 post · 3 comments · 2 sources · development 2 of 4
HN user alwillis links a related discussion, "Turn off and restrict access to Apple Intelligence features on Mac," describing it as a workable list of settings from Apple.
“I'll say they definitely need to let people disable/offload the model, but if you haven't tried the new Siri, it's been great.”
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I'll say they definitely need to let people disable/offload the model, but if you haven't tried the new Siri, it's been great. Obviously it's not a state of the art LLM, but it's good enough, and the fact that it can search and take actions on your local data makes it incredibly useful. I definitely use it more on my iPhone where it's slower to…
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A couple of things I've done with Apple Intelligence on the Mac:* When I need a prescription refilled, the quickest way is to message my doctor using the patient portal. I created a Shortcut that lets me pick among 5 medications; Apple Intelligence then generates a message with the request to the clipboard which I paste into the message field and…
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Posted: "Turn off and restrict access to Apple Intelligence features on Mac" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49790409Not a bad list from Apple.
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They need an option to completely disable and delete Apple Intelligence.A 256GB Mac Mini is effectively unable to use macOS 27 due to this bloated nonsense.
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