Deactivate apple intelligence

I'm not anti-Ai.....it can be a useful tool. What I am is anti-lack-of-control. MacOS itself may belong to Apple....as Windows 11 belongs to Microsoft....but the hardware belongs to me and it being APPLE....i paid thru the nose for that privilege. Heck I have a 2TB drive with just under a TB of free space available "after" the upgrade to OS 27 so it wasn't even about lack of storage as with some others on this thread.

Sequoia has at present a simple way to manage Ai and thats how i want it. I don't want to be force fed it, nor have to jump thru hoops to disable various features of it or be in the dark about how the Ai is baked into the OS.

Thank god Linux provides a good alternative to both of the Big Brothers. :-)

lansoar wrote:

It is a mess....because there is no singular "off switch". No need to keep posting links. Been there.

Different link, more info, MDM profile info too.

Yes.

if its off by default why should I hold its 24GB of data ? how to clean and back my 24gb of storage?