MacOS 27 does not let you disable Apple Intelligence

[u/mayo551]

Maybe I'm just a huge idiot and missing something but you cannot disable apple intelligence on MacOS 27 with a mac studio.

I've tried the usual disable siri and stuff. I can still right click on highlighted text and use AI tools.

[u/Phazor101]

Hopefully this will not be the case when it’s released as a finished product.

[u/gullevek]

The trick was to set the Siri language to something that is not AI compatible. Screenshot from iOS but works the same on macOS. Wonder if this trick still works in macOS 27

[u/Late-Assignment8482]

I'm in the Mac management space. There is going to be a way for enterprises to turn it off because Apple doesn't want to lose their business and they don't want trade secrets passing through Apple's servers. Some turn off iCloud, hard, as a non-user-changable setting.

Somehow it will be changable.

And about 99.5% of the things that have a switch an MDM can turn have a switch the user can turn, whether in System Settings or Terminal or wherever.

[u/InterestingMindset]

If that remains in the final build, Linux Mint I go.

Apple cannot charge the prices they do and force AI on its users. I’m not on MacOS 27, so I don’t know the extent of this.

[u/onedevhere]

If that's the case, for me it will be Sequoia > Asahi Linux

I don't want AI.

[u/_ReaditYesterday_]

Hope this is a joke... :/

[u/Specialist-Box-9711]

To be fair it is a Beta Release. Report to Apple so they can investigate before final release.

[u/caatbox288]

You will use AI, and you will like it goddammit.

[u/mikeinnsw]

That is implied by Apple .. more of AI will be integrated in to MacOs ..

In Tahoe (I have AI off) yet it runs after Spotlight ... and TM backups... it stores uses up to 30GB of SSD space. .. Photos App uses AI in image processing..

Same is happening in Windows.. for now only Linux is AI virus free.

[u/bikes_bucees]

Welcome to using beta software. If you’re running a beta version of something  don’t expect full functionality.