Mac Users Reclaim Storage With New Apple Intelligence Removal Tool

A caller open-source instrumentality is making waves successful the Mac assemblage by helping users reclaim invaluable retention abstraction taken up by Apple's AI models. Called "RemoveMacAI," the instrumentality disables Apple Intelligence connected macOS 27, removes its downloaded models, and prevents them from being downloaded again.


In macOS 27, Apple removed the toggle to disable Apple Intelligence wholesale, and simply disabling idiosyncratic features doesn't region the models from your Mac's drive. As explained by the developer, RemoveMacAI gets astir this by utilizing a configuration illustration to power disconnected Apple's ain plus absorption work and region the models.

It past configures the strategy truthful attempts to download the removed models are redirected to a closed section port, preventing them from instantly coming back. And it does each this without disabling System Integrity Protection (SIP) oregon manually deleting files from protected strategy locations, dissimilar immoderate older tools have.

The instrumentality tin escaped up astir 10GB-12GB of abstraction depending connected which models are contiguous connected your Mac. That said, immoderate users are reporting cases of Apple Intelligence models having taken up a batch much space, which they've present reclaimed.

With the Apple models gone, you suffer each Siri-related AI features, Writing Tools, Genmoji, Image Playground, ChatGPT integration, summaries, astute replies, inline predictions, Photos Clean Up, Spatial Photos, and Xcode predictive completion. Even so, plentifulness of users look blessed to marque the sacrifice to escaped up space, particularly connected non-upgradeable Macs with 256GB of storage. The illustration reportedly persists crossed updates. And if you're wondering, dictation inactive works.

The task has attracted hundreds of GitHub stars since its merchandise past week, and there's tons of treatment connected Reddit and Hacker News astir the request for specified a tool. Just beryllium alert that MacRumors isn't endorsing RemoveMacAI, and anyone utilizing it does truthful astatine their ain risk.

The developer has mentioned 1 caveat, and it's that immoderate of the configuration-profile regularisation keys that the instrumentality relies connected were deprecated by Apple successful macOS 26.4. While they inactive enactment successful macOS 27.0.1, a aboriginal mentation could ever alteration that. Something to support successful mind.
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