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Turn off Apple Intelligence features on macOS 27

Posted in Apple Intelligence General Tips & Tricks

Did you know that you can turn off Apple Intelligence features like Siri AI, summarization features, and more on macOS 27 Golden Gate?

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Siri
• You will need to enable Screen Time to block Siri; go to System Settings > Screen Time > Contents & Privacy
• Turn off the Contents & Privacy switch at the top of the screen
• Click Siri
• Change Siri to Siri Classic
• Go through the list of Capabilities and turn each one off

Notifications
• Go to System Settings > Notifications
• Turn off the Summarize notifications

Messages
• Launch Messages
• Go to Settings > General
• Turn off Summarize Messages

Mail
• Launch Mail.
• Go to Settings > Viewing
• Turn off Summarize Message Previews
• Go to Settings > Composing
• Turn off Personalize Smart Replies
• Go to the View menu and make sure Show Mail Categories is not checked

Journal
• Launch Journal
• Go to Settings > General
• Turn off Get Writing Prompts

Finder & other apps
• In Finder, go to Finder > Settings
• Uncheck Suggest file names

Siri & other apps
• Go to System Settings > Siri.
• Click on App Access.
• Click on each app and…
• Turn off Learn from this application.
• Turn off Show Siri Suggestions in application, if shown
• Repeat for each app in the list

Note: In System Settings > Privacy & Security, there is an Apple Intelligence Report. We recommend keeping this setting turned on so that you can verify that Apple Intelligence is truly not functioning.