Stop Siri processes.

whateverly wrote:

Primarily siriactionsd, sirittsd, and siriknowledged. These keep showing up in Activity Monitor even though I have turned off Siri.

No, they are baked into the OS on a System folder that is locked on a read only, sealed partition of your drive and cannot be removed. Force quitting the process in Activity Monitor will result in them being started up again due to the parent process being launchd.

• siriactionsd is used in conjunction with the Shortcuts app, which also cannot be deleted. It will be reflected in the CPU time, but your CPU% is probably 0.0% if no shortcuts are being used.
• sirittsd is used for the same purpose as siriactionsd and also for app intents for actions taken if Siri is used.
• siriknowledged is used both for fetching information from Siri requests and indexing files in case a request is made for local data. The indexing is still performed when Siri is turned off so if you ever decided to turn Siri on you would not have to wait for the files to be indexed.

Are you seeing any CPU usage percentage on any of these processes? I would expect there would not be any without using Siri or Shortcuts. If you are seeing high CPU usage, then we can look further in a third party app that is scheduling a script to run at specific intervals.

What Siri processes are you referring to?

Primarily siriactionsd, sirittsd, and siriknowledged. These keep showing up in Activity Monitor even though I have turned off Siri.