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Can You Disable Spotlight and Siri in macOS Tahoe?

by @howardnoakley eclecticlight.co published 2026-01-16

If you don’t want any of their services, you can turn Siri off in its settings, and disable indexing and search in Spotlight settings. Or you can use mdutil, if you know its limitations.

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