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Sean Heber

Saw people talking about macOS 15.3 automatically turning on Apple Intelligence when it comes out, but I just upgraded to 15.2 and it seems to me that it turned it on during the upgrade. Grr.

I can't seem to turn it off right now, either, because now it's downloading, I guess?

Maybe the switch will show up once it's done filling up my hard drive.

Update: Apparently macOS 15.2 finished downloading all of the Apple Intelligence stuff but it did *not* turn it on after all. So macOS 15.2 does *not* enable it - but it does preemptively download it all, I guess. (Whereas 15.3 will turn it on by default, too, apparently.)

@bigzaphod What the hellllll. I’ve avoided updating to 15.2 so far but was about to tonight. Maybe I won't after all. 🙃

@jwisser yeah I dunno. I didn't click anything, but post-upgrade there was one of those "new feature" popups about Apple Intelligence. No switch. Just a next or close button (I forget what it was). So I was suspicious and checked settings and sure enough...

Sigh.

@bigzaphod for me it downloaded but stayed disabled.

@bigzaphod I also turned off Siri and dictation because that data has been misused in the past.

@bigzaphod Mine says "not available when your Mac is in French (Canada)" (translated from French). There's no switch or download indicator. So I guess I'm lucky.

@bigzaphod Annoyingly it doesn't delete the downloaded models after you disable it. One has to turn off SIP to fully get rid of it.

@forst @bigzaphod How much space do the downloaded models take up?

(Still – for now – on a non-Intelligence-capable Mac, so I haven’t been paying attention to the details)

@montyhayter @bigzaphod Shows up in the "Storage" preference panel as 5.5 gigs.

@bigzaphod Wait - they are automatically turning on a Beta feature?

Can you get improved Siri - without summaries or other Ai hallucinogenic tending features? I'm ready for multi-stage Siri questioning - but don't want it anywhere near what people texting me say.

@bigzaphod Well there goes my thought of wonder if the .3 upgrade will still trigger the AI setup if it’s in airplane mode. Guess so. Nice to lose 3GB of space on my phone for garbage.

@sgtstretch @bigzaphod If you turn it off it will be purged when the space is needed. The "garbage" isn't taking up space in that case.

@bigzaphod I noticed that in iOS. I am yet to turn it on and somewhat don’t want to based on it being in “beta “

@bigzaphod that’s super annoying. Yes, Apple force me to download 7GB of something I just want to delete