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I don't think I ever opted in to Siri. How can I turn it off? I've disabled it from the menu bar but it's still on the touchbar, just waiting for me to slightly miss the delete key

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To remove Siri from the touchbar:

System Preferences -> Keyboard

Click on "Customize Control strip"

You then drag and drop items on and off the touchbar. It is a totally inane, unintuitive interface and it took me forever to find it. Also, I couldn't figure out how to change it because the option DISAPPEARS if you're trying to customize in clamshell mode. The touch bar has to be open

I can't tell if it's deliberately bad UX, but I spent months being asked if I wanted to turn on Siri typing on this keyboard...

It’s one of the installer screens you get every time you install or upgrade OSX.

You would’ve seen it at least a dozen times by now.

I feel like macOS asks me about Siri and privacy at login after every major update, with an unskippable setup window, but at least after account creation. Open System Preferences > Siri and disable Ask Siri. You can edit the Touch Bar via a menu in Finder.

System Preferences -> Siri and then disable the Ask Siri checkbox in the left.

Alas, that didnt remove it from the touchbar

System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Personalize Control Strip

It is hard with sys Perf. and keyboard ... and not good in interpreting one’s voice as well.

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