- They don't really work. Yes, they are really bad (almost pathetic).
- They take up RAM - somtimes lots of it. RAM matters, more so on a Mac. This matters more if you want to use and try local models (I suspect even a 500MB to 2GB model might work infinitely better than whatever one or more Apple ships). Also because a lot of "Apple" things start and remain started and can take whimsical amount of RAM at any given point (and you have practically no control on it whatsoever).
- And did you by any chance miss that they take anythiing from 10-15GB to 30GB or so.
- Then Apple being Apple it might downlaod another 30GB or more as part of next update and then forget deleteing the old ones (or, again, Apple being Apple, they might not have left a way to delete the old ones - this has higher probability).
- I also don't remember signing up for this (but probably that doesn't make sense for you, ignore this point).
- Did you notice the UI? You clearly switch OFF Siri and it still isn't switched off.
- Then you have to go to Screen Time and then you have to first set it on as classic and disable all kinds AI feature there and then there's word on the street that even that is not enough and you have to go to inidvidual apps and disable every feature there. Even after that one is not sure it's disabled. Or it might get magically reenabled in then next patch/update.
- There are other places where you have to disable it - in notifications, in email… I lost clount.
- In case the second last point didn't hit home, let me try again: there's a global settings option and you turn Siri off (it doesn't turn it off), then there's in Screen Time and there's marking it "Not Allowed" doesn't disable it either).
And I am sure this is not the end of it. (Yes, I am tired of Apple's pretty shite software and other OEMs' shite or almost shite hardware).