Over the last 24 hours I’ve been asked if a new tool that has appeared can be used to kill Apple Intelligence. So seeing as I have got a lot of interest in this, I will answer this question. First the tool. Indie developer Om Lahore published a project called RemoveMacAI on GitHub late last week, which promises to “turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and remove its downloaded models.” And his tool apparently uses the company’s asset service to remove downloaded models and prevent macOS from downloading them again.
Now this sounds good. But consider this. Apple Intelligence is so buried in MacOS that I really doubt that this doesn’t come with any side effects. Thus even though this tool can save 14GB roughly based on my own testing with virtual machines, I would skip it. Instead, there is this tutorial that describes how to turn off Apple Intelligence for all Apple Devices.
Having said that, Apple really needs a way to kill Apple Intelligence dead. I say that because I have clients who are thinking twice about buying new Apple hardware that only supports macOS 27 or iOS 27, or any OS that ends in 27 as they don’t want to have to deal with this. So if Apple doesn’t want their hardware sales to nosedive, they may have no other option than to support the official removal of Apple Intelligence sooner rather than later.
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No, You Should Not Turn Apple Intelligence Off Using A Third Party Tool
Over the last 24 hours I’ve been asked if a new tool that has appeared can be used to kill Apple Intelligence. So seeing as I have got a lot of interest in this, I will answer this question. First the tool. Indie developer Om Lahore published a project called RemoveMacAI on GitHub late last week, which promises to “turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and remove its downloaded models.” And his tool apparently uses the company’s asset service to remove downloaded models and prevent macOS from downloading them again.
Now this sounds good. But consider this. Apple Intelligence is so buried in MacOS that I really doubt that this doesn’t come with any side effects. Thus even though this tool can save 14GB roughly based on my own testing with virtual machines, I would skip it. Instead, there is this tutorial that describes how to turn off Apple Intelligence for all Apple Devices.
Having said that, Apple really needs a way to kill Apple Intelligence dead. I say that because I have clients who are thinking twice about buying new Apple hardware that only supports macOS 27 or iOS 27, or any OS that ends in 27 as they don’t want to have to deal with this. So if Apple doesn’t want their hardware sales to nosedive, they may have no other option than to support the official removal of Apple Intelligence sooner rather than later.
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