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The Apple Intelligence features are opt in. I’d suggest upgrading to Sequoia and just keeping those off if that’s what you are concerned about.
by orionsbelt 2y ago
The Apple Intelligence features are opt in. I’d suggest upgrading to Sequoia and just keeping those off if that’s what you are concerned about.
- avazhi 2y agoI did upgrade to it after the first week and it was the worst MacOS upgrade I've ever done (since Leopard), so I went back to Sonoma. Firewall was broken, Wifi was broken, Contact key Verification was broken. It was the biggest pile of shit I've ever seen, even worse than Windows Vista or Windows 8 ever were for me, by comparison. And the second worst thing besides how buggy it was was how there was literally no benefit to using it - Sequoia is basically all AI nonsense, which I don't intend to use anyway. Yes it's my fault for upgrading, especially in a dot 0 release, but I was curious and had a free weekend day so I figured I'd give it the plunge. I ended up spending more time investigating just how long I can stay on Sonoma, especially once it gets end of lifed, because I have absolutely no faith in Apple's software going forward and I have 0 interest in having my OS do any kind of AI processing, whether on device or off. A few more random fuck ups I noticed: Bluetooth Codec quality can no longer be manually controlled or even seen by holding option and clicking the BT icon in the menu bar, nor can you use the Bluetooth Explorer tool to edit the codec and bitrate. Just gone. Sequoia also completely broke my Homebrew and Python3 installs, along with doing something to pip independently of the other two such that I couldn't run any programs that had pip dependencies. That was all on a fresh formatted USB install of Sequoia, too. That OS is genuinely an unbelievable pile of shit.