Can You Disable Spotlight and Siri in macOS Tahoe?
4 months ago
- #macOS
- #Siri
- #Spotlight
- Disabling Siri can be done by turning off Siri Requests in System Settings, but some Siri services remain active.
- Disabling Spotlight indexing via `sudo mdutil -a -i off` does not stop searches and may not fully disable indexing on the Data volume.
- Using `sudo mdutil -a -d` disables both Spotlight searches and indexing, though related processes still run in the background.
- Spotlight and Siri cannot be completely disabled in macOS Tahoe without disabling SIP and performing system modifications.
- To re-enable Spotlight indexing, use `sudo mdutil -a -i on`.