How can I remove Apple Intellegence from my MacBook Pro?

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How can I remove Apple Intellegence from my MacBook Pro?

Without my permission Apple istalled Apple Intellegence on my machine. I updated the machine. The machine was locked up after the first boot. It showed an empty grey window with a "Back" button and a "Continue" button. When I clicked the back button nothing happened. When I clicked the Continue button it installed the Apple Intelligence Beta. This is crazy. What an enormous breach of trust. I dont trust AI and now I dont trust Apple. How do I get this Beta out of my machine? I consider it malware now because it installed itself without my permission. Apple tricked me.

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MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 15.3

Posted on Feb 3, 2025 02:30 PM

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Answer 1

noit x Author

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Feb 3, 2025 02:56 PM in response to Kurt Lang

They are forcing me. It's slowing down my machine right now. What's it doing? I dont know. I wasn't allowed to read the email your message generated without opting into it further. My OS is now slathered top to bottom with AI garbage. How would I ever know if it's on or off? Why would I trust the people who just tricked me into istalling beta software to obey an off button?

It's over. How will I ever know if what I'm reading is real or if it's Apple's version rewritten for me? How will I know my text is being sent the way I wrote it and not the way Apple wants it? How are any of us ever going to know what anyone else is saying for sure anymore. This is a serious collapse of human communication and an existential nightmare we will never wake from.

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Kurt Lang

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Feb 3, 2025 02:45 PM in response to noit x

Are you saying the Continue or Back buttons don't work?

And no one if forcing you to use Apple's AI. Yes, it gets installed, and yes it's enabled by default. And it also takes less than 15 seconds to go to the AI option in Settings to turn it off.

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Answer 3

muguy

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Feb 3, 2025 03:12 PM in response to noit x

we’ll be just fine. So will you. Apple intelligence is installed as part of the OS. And, you can turn it off if you wish. Of course, machine learning has been part of the OS for some time so this is nothing new.

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