An open-source tool lets you delete 12GB of Apple Intelligence data on macOS
‘RemoveMacAI’ switches off Apple’s AI features, deletes its AI models, and blocks them from being downloaded again.
by Stevie Bonifield
Oct 5, 2026, 1:47 PM UTC
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Stevie Bonifield is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at Laptop Mag writing news and reviews on hardware, gaming, and AI.
Getting some extra storage space on your Mac could be as easy as deleting Apple’s AI features with a new open-source command line tool called RemoveMacAI. There used to be a single Settings toggle for disabling Apple Intelligence, but that was removed in macOS 27. Now, the models stay on your disk, and the features are split up across different settings panes.
As spotted earlier by MacRumors, the RemoveMacAI developer said in a post on Redditthat the tool essentially does what the old settings toggle did, deleting the models and turning the...
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