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How can I disable the `Shift + cmd + spacebar` keyboard shortcut which opens screen aware Siri?

How can I disable the `Shift + cmd + spacebar` keyboard shortcut which with Ask Siri beta active in macOS Golden Gate opens some screen recorder.


I do not want to use that feature but so far was unable to find the location where I can remove that keyboard shortcut. I need that shortcut for other workflows so Golden Gate just grabbing it without asking the user is ... well not great.

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Found: System Settings > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Screenshots > Ask Siri about active window, unticked and I have my important keyboard shortcut back.

Next attempt to workaround this macOS issue is to rebind the keyboard shortcut in "Screenshots > Ask Siri about active window" is to bind that shortcut to some obscure shortcut and hope that sticks, so I get the keyboard shortcut I need for my workflows back.

Keyboard shortcut setting has moved on macOS 27 Golden Gate. The workaround by setting the most obscure keyboard shortcut I could think of, to prevent macOS from stealing shortcuts I need for my work did the trick although I believe after removing a shortcut, macOS should not be re-claiming it without user interaction. One could even argue it should not have claimed the shortcut without asking the user in the first place.


... or so I thought.

macOS 27.0.1 keeps reclaiming that keyboard shortcut despite having it unticked various times. Seems like yet another unresolved bug in macOS.

Switch the selected keyboard shortcut here, such as by selecting holding the 🎤︎ key, as shown below:


Above is from macOS 26, not macOS 27.