Turn off new 'Select All' Apple Intelligence feature

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Turn off new 'Select All' Apple Intelligence feature

Sequoia 15.2.

Apple Mail has suddenly started offering to 'Select All' messages after I've selected a couple of them.

This behaviour is unnecessary and unwanted: if I wanted to select all messages, I'd use `cmd-a`, of course, or I'd shift select at the top and bottom of the list. I can foresee no sensible circumstances where I'd want to select all after selecting consecutive messages.

Does anyone know if there's a way to turn this intrusive behaviour off, short of turning off Apple Intelligence completely? Mail Help doesn't mention it at all.

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Posted on Jan 17, 2025 2:23 AM

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brookter Author

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Jan 17, 2025 2:30 AM in response to dialabrain

I shall, but I was waiting to see if there was a less nuclear option to turn it off first, than switching Apple Intelligence off completely. The feedback will be different if there *is* a way (i.e "Why isn't it more obvious?"), than if there isn't ("What on earth are you smoking?")…

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brookter Author

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Jan 17, 2025 11:50 PM in response to dialabrain

Right… I did some testing on a couple of different machines, and the behaviour got weirder – it wasn't invoked on the touchpad at all on the laptop, and only with a mouse and shift-select (not keyboard) on the desktop.

After a while I suddenly had a thought: I'd installed PopClip about the same time as I enabled Apple Intelligence and not had a chance to test it. Turns out one of the extension does this 'select all' trick.

So, not Apple Intelligence at all… Sorry about the false alarm and confusion and thank you for helping!

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