Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back
Article URL: https://github.com/omlahore/RemoveMacAI Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49957116 Points: 195 # Comments: 105
With the release of macOS 27, Apple Intelligence features remain enabled, consuming disk space and impacting system performance. To reclaim this space and disable the features, one can utilize the RemoveMacAI tool. This script, built from the GitHub Actions repository, removes Apple Intelligence models and switches, ensuring no further downloads occur.
Upon execution, RemoveMacAI presents the current state and seeks confirmation before proceeding. It opens System Settings for the user to approve the configuration profile, which requires their approval before implementation. Following this, the script removes the models, concluding the process.
Notably, these actions do not interfere with dictation, as this remains a separate setting unaffected by Apple Intelligence's removal. macOS updates do not revert these changes, ensuring the profile and download block persist across updates. However, System Settings continues to list Apple Intelligence; the actual files are eventually deleted by macOS on its own schedule.
The process named 'Siri' remains operational, as some system services remain protected by System Integrity Protection. To revert the changes, one must re-run the RemoveMacAI tool in revert mode and uninstall it via Homebrew if previously installed. Built on the pared tool, RemoveMacAI carries a restrictive license, stipulated in its THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md file.
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