how to permanently disable wifi?

[Bento.Box]

Hello,

following issue:
Unfortunately, my Mac mini M4 came with built-in wifi (the G4 back in the days had the option to remove it).
When I deactivate wifi in the top right, it comes back on with every OSX upgrade I perform.

Due to an error in the network routing function of the OSX kernel, it prefers the routes with the higher administrative cost instead of the lower, which means that it will try to connect over the slow wifi even though a cable is connected.

But because I use the same apple account (maybe it was a bad idea) on the mini and the iPhone, the iPhone cannot connect to the wifi anymore when I delete the credentials from the mini.

Is there a clean way to disable wifi permanently on OSX?

Thanks!

 

[adrianlondon]

Hello,

following issue:
Unfortunately, my Mac mini M4 came with built-in wifi (the G4 back in the days had the option to remove it).
When I deactivate wifi in the top right, it comes back on with every OSX upgrade I perform.

Due to an error in the network routing function of the OSX kernel, it prefers the routes with the higher administrative cost instead of the lower, which means that it will try to connect over the slow wifi even though a cable is connected.

But because I use the same apple account (maybe it was a bad idea) on the mini and the iPhone, the iPhone cannot connect to the wifi anymore when I delete the credentials from the mini.

Is there a clean way to disable wifi permanently on OSX?

Thanks!

I believe you can just turn off the "auto join" option on MacOS and that doesn't get sync'd anywhere.

 

[Slartibart]

also if you drag the ethernet connection to the top in the settings it will stay there persistent, even when you update.

 

[bogdanw]

With SIP disabled on mini M4 Sequoia 15.4.1, I have disabled several Wi-Fi launch agents and launch daemons and Wi-Fi looks like this now:

What I have disabled:

launchctl bootout gui/501/com.apple.wifianalyticsd
launchctl disable gui/501/com.apple.wifianalyticsd

launchctl bootout gui/501/com.apple.wifi.WiFiAgent
launchctl disable gui/501/com.apple.wifi.WiFiAgent

sudo launchctl bootout system/com.apple.wifianalyticsd
sudo launchctl disable system/com.apple.wifianalyticsd

sudo launchctl bootout system/com.apple.wifip2pd
sudo launchctl disable system/com.apple.wifip2pd

sudo launchctl bootout system/com.apple.wifivelocityd
sudo launchctl disable system/com.apple.wifivelocityd