Apple No Longer Hiding Apple Intelligence Storage Space Info in macOS 15.4

With the second beta of macOS 15.4 that was released earlier successful March, Apple changed System Settings to fell however overmuch section retention abstraction Apple Intelligence takes up connected a Mac.


Making the alteration led to accusations that Apple was trying to fell the size of ‌Apple Intelligence‌, and truthful with the 4th macOS 15.4 beta that came retired today, Apple made ‌Apple Intelligence‌'s retention requirements casual to find erstwhile again.

To spot ‌Apple Intelligence‌ retention space, you tin spell to System Settings > General > Storage and click the info fastener adjacent to the macOS listing. That brings up a popup that shows the mentation of macOS installed and the retention abstraction taken up by ‌Apple Intelligence‌ and it's the aforesaid mode that System Settings works successful the existent merchandise mentation of macOS Sequoia, 15.3.2.

It is imaginable that the missing ‌Apple Intelligence‌ retention diagnostic successful the earlier macOS 15.4 beta was a bug. Users who had System Integrity Protection (SIP) disabled were capable to spot the accusation without issue, and Apple appeared to person made the ‌Apple Intelligence‌ retention assets unavailable to anyone with SIP enabled.

For reference, SIP protects the Mac by preventing unauthorized codification from being run, and it tin lone beryllium turned disconnected successful Recovery Mode. Disabling SIP is typically lone utilized by developers investigating apps, and astir users ever person it on. Given that Apple returned the ‌Apple Intelligence‌ retention abstraction listing to each users, it was possibly thing unintentional, though it remains unclear.

Apple says that ‌Apple Intelligence‌ can consume up to 7GB of retention abstraction connected a Mac, though it appears to beryllium taking up much abstraction connected immoderate Macs successful ‌macOS Sequoia‌ 15.4. ‌Apple Intelligence‌ requires dedicated retention abstraction due to the fact that it downloads instrumentality learning models and assets to Apple devices truthful that immoderate functions tin beryllium tally locally.

Disabling ‌Apple Intelligence‌ is the lone mode to support the diagnostic from utilizing up abstraction connected a Mac.
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