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David Bushell<\/a> (Mastodon<\/a>, Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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I discovered that macOS 15.3 had enabled a feature that was phoning home every 15 minutes with personal data. And that I said “no” and turned it off.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

And today I discovered that Apple had [in macOS 27] removed the “no” switch.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Digging through macOS 27 settings I turned off Siri (again). Of course, multiple unkillable Siri processes remain, stealing memory and writing data. For what purpose? Who knows. Note that they removed “Apple Intelligence” from this control.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

All of this garbage was enabled after upgrading to macOS 27 despite me having “Apple Intelligence & Siri” turned off already. That was a rather explicit “no”, no?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n