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imglorp • today at 11:55 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

Heck, even on Macos 26, I have all the Siri and intelligence toggles turned off. Yet all these processes sitting around.

    (me)      11386   0.0  0.1 435334816  22528   ??  S     3:26AM   0:03.89 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/VoiceShortcuts.framework/Versions/A/Support/siriactionsd
    (me)       1099   0.0  0.0 435344416   3360   ??  Ss   27Aug26   0:01.95 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/SiriSuggestionsSupport.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/SiriSuggestionsBookkeepingService.xpc/Contents/MacOS/SiriSuggestionsBookkeepingService
    (me)        941   0.0  0.0 435440384   3776   ??  S    27Aug26   0:04.52 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/SiriInference.framework/Versions/A/siriinferenced

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baggachipz • today at 12:52 PM

I foolishly bought a Macbook Air with only 256GB of drive space. Now whenever I need to "upgrade" OS versions, there's not enough drive space to do so. It sure would be nice to delete all this unnecessary Siri bullshit bloat so that I can use my laptop with the latest updates.

pbronez • today at 1:12 PM

Are these Spotlight? The New Siri combined Siri and Spotlight into a single agentic retrieval thing, so it’s possible that when you turn off “Siri” they leave on Spotlight but it’s reported under the new branding.

Inconsistent & confusing if so.