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RemoveMacAI Tool Disables Apple Intelligence Features and Recovers Disk Space on macOS 27
Key points
- RemoveMacAI disables Apple Intelligence features.
- It removes downloaded AI models from disk.
- Prevents macOS from re-downloading models.
- Changes can be reverted by the user.
Disabling Apple Intelligence
macOS 27 does not offer a single user-facing switch to completely disable Apple Intelligence features. Even if individual features are turned off, their associated models remain on the disk, consuming storage space. The RemoveMacAI tool provides a method to address this by turning off these features and removing the downloaded models.
How RemoveMacAI Works
RemoveMacAI operates by installing a configuration profile that applies Apple's restriction keys for Apple Intelligence and forces settings without specific restriction keys. It removes models via Apple's asset service, ensuring System Integrity Protection remains enabled and no system files are directly modified. The profile also redirects model downloads to a closed local port, preventing macOS from re-downloading them.
The tool can be installed via a curl command or Homebrew. It prompts for user confirmation and requires approval for its configuration profile in System Settings. All changes made by RemoveMacAI can be reverted, which will allow macOS to download models again if features require them.
Affected Features and Models
Features disabled by RemoveMacAI include Siri, Writing Tools, Genmoji, Image Playground, the ChatGPT extension, summaries in Mail, Messages, Safari, Notes, and notifications, Mail smart replies, inline text predictions, Spatial Photos, Photos Clean Up, and Xcode predictive code completion. The tool removes foundation models for Apple Intelligence, image generation, Genmoji, Spatial Photos, Photos Clean Up, and Xcode code completion.
Dictation functionality is unaffected as it is a separate setting and its speech models are not removed. The changes made by RemoveMacAI are persistent across macOS updates.
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Primary sources
GitHub cmc_internal/api GitHub github/collect GitHub omlahore/RemoveMacAI GitHub _private/browser GitHub get-started/accessibility GitHub open-source/sponsorsReporting from
A new tool called RemoveMacAI allows users to disable Apple Intelligence features on macOS 27 and remove associated downloaded models, freeing up disk space. This addresses the lack of a single switch for Apple Intelligence in macOS 27 and prevents models from being re-downloaded.