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So Sierra just went GM and was wondering if any others are having issues removing Siri from the OS. Our company is pretty security conscience and Siri didn't pass her tests. So I need to figure out how to disable her as much as possible. I can already disable the system panel, but I was hoping to get rid of the menu bar item, and any mention of her if possible. With SIP things have gotten harder to remove (even chess for some reason). So I can't imagine and easy answer to this.

Any thoughts?

can anyone here please give me a full explanation on how I can kill siri off mac os sierra? i am trying to do so for a school build but i am currently struggling. thanks.


Same here! I have read everything twice but I can not see if the topics discussed even worked or any guideline. Could anyone involved in these discussions tell us what the final outcome was? I tried to remove Siri.app today and I can not find a workout as well.


I'm surprised that JAMF has not addressed this yet in some type of post. At least state what can and can't be done regarding Siri with the current version.


@bvrooman that solution is working for us. I misread the post originally and thought that it was the com.apple.assistant.plist file which wasn't disabling Siri so I did some more work and discovered it was the com.apple.assistant.support.plist instead. A few hours of extra work lost for a typo error haha. Glad it's working now though. thanks