I said no and Apple said yes
I only skipped one major version, Apple skipped 10!And today I discovered that Apple had removed the “no” switch.The “AI” industry has many flaws, the word “consent” being seemingly missing from training data and company handbooks is one of them. When Apple advertised their deepfake feature back in June it became obvious Apple does not “think different.”Digging through macOS 27 settings I turned off Siri (again). Of course, multiple unkillable Siri processes remain, stealing memory and writing data.
- ▪I only skipped one major version, Apple skipped 10!And today I discovered that Apple had removed the “no” switch.The “AI” industry has many flaws, the word “consent” being seemingly missing from training data and company handbooks is one of
- ▪When Apple advertised their deepfake feature back in June it became obvious Apple does not “think different.”Digging through macOS 27 settings I turned off Siri (again).
- ▪Of course, multiple unkillable Siri processes remain, stealing memory and writing data.
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| Publication time | Tue, 22 Sep 2026 08:04:55 +0000 |
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I said no and Apple said yes Subscribe Blog RSS feed Notes RSS feed or Combined RSS feed and follow Mastodon Bluesky Tuesday 22 Sept 2026 Play Synthesised Audio The nice thing about keeping a blog is that I can say at precisely 9:51am, Wednesday 5th February 2025, 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.At the time Apple were generous enough to provide a setting to disable this feature.AltmacOS 15 Apple Intelligence setting.Although they hid the second part deeper, because why should saying “no” be easy?AltmacOS 15 Apple Intelligence privacy setting.Last week I succumbed to Apple’s harassment and upgraded macOS 15 to 27.
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