I Said No and Apple Said Yes

David Bushell (Mastodon, Hacker News):

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. And today I discovered that Apple had [in macOS 27] removed the “no” switch. 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. 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?

Previously:

• Siri AI Ships (But Still Beta)
• Persistent Ads in iOS Settings
• Opting Into Training Siri AI and Apple Foundation Models
• Mandatory Apple Intelligence
• App Store Personalized Recommendations and Keylogging
• Opting Out of “Help Apple Improve Search”
• Apple Settles Siri Spying Lawsuit
• Keeping Your Data From Apple Is Harder Than Expected
• Lawsuits Over Apple Analytics Switch