Every time my Big Sur Macbook Pro does an automatic overnight update and reboots, it presents a checkbox offering to enable Siri. Can this perpetual nag be disabled?
(In System Preferences, I leave the checkbox "Enable Ask Siri" unchecked.)
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Signing into iCloud and turning on both Bluetooth and Wi-Fi ensures that your Mac has the best chance of finding its location. I believe that if you sign into iOS devices that happen to have GPS or location services working, your Mac might be smart enough to figure out where it is based on sharing the same Internet connection in proximity, but I am not sure.
The primary way that location is determined as if Apple knows the IP address you are reaching so be sure you turn off all VPNs and get on as open a network is you can initially. The second way is trilateralization from known WiFi access points that your WiFi can see. You don’t have to join those networks, but you need a viable network connection back to Apple.
Your panics repeatedly occur in IOAcceleratorFamily, which is the graphics driver. Panics with this specific signature are overwhelmingly the result of a bug in macOS, not anything that you’re doing wrong. Debugging this fully requires Apple internal tools and engineering expertise, not to mention access to the code. You won’t be able to fix this yourself (although you might stumble upon a workaround, such as a full erase-install) because this isn’t the user’s fault.
Your best bet is to file a bug report and provide Apple with detailed information to help reproduce and root-cause your issue. This will include collecting a sysdiagnose immediately after you reboot from a crash ($ sysdiagnose in Terminal or CommandOptionControlShift. from any app). Then you can file the bug via the Apple Developer bug reporter if you have a developer account or through Feedback Assistant if you don’t. If you file a good report, you will either work indirectly with an Apple engineer if this is a novel bug or have your data be added to the pool of existing reports for this same issue. Apple will then work to make a fix and roll it into the earliest software update that it can.
Best Answer
One way to do this is via MDM policy.
If you don’t have an MDM, I recommend trying JAMF now for free since it is supported and free for the first few devices. You can fine tune things like the menu bar as well.
You might try these profiles as well but that operation can be fiddle without the MDM setup completed.