I am tired to fight against every platform that I have to use

De macify Mac Degoogle Android Demacify ipad DeLLM chrome browsers local llm

Can we expect sane decisions from corpos about what we want rather than what latest thing they want to push on us?

There's a distinction worth drawing here: "on-device" and "local" are not the same thing, and this thread is really about the gap between them. A model Apple pushes to your disk that you can't inspect, swap, or remove, that runs when the OS decides, is on-device in the literal sense and gives you none of the control that makes local AI worth wanting. Local, in the sense people actually mean it, is that you chose the weights, you chose when it runs, and you can delete it. Forcing a 14-29GB model you can't uninstall is the inverse of that. The storage complaint is real, but the deeper one is that "we put AI on your device" quietly became "we put our AI on your device."

without a reddit account:

... can you also force Siri off by using Screen Time controls? I noticed that in the Screen Time menus, "Content and Privacy" restrictions can be toggled on. From there seems to be an additional "Siri" menu that lets me change the allowed Siri version from Siri Classic to Siri AI as well as options to turn off the global writing tools/assistance (which turns off the annoying Siri bubble on every textbox now).

I suspect forcing Siri off via those controls would work easier than using Low Data Mode or trying to force Siri to disable via language selection.