Overview
- RemoveMacAI, published on GitHub by developer Om Lahore, lets users install an approved configuration profile that turns off Apple Intelligence features, requests Apple’s asset service to remove the locally stored models, and blocks immediate re-downloads.
- Across reports and user tests, the tool typically reclaims roughly 10–12 GB of storage on macOS 27 Apple silicon machines, with some users reporting substantially larger recoveries depending on which models were present.
- The removal keeps System Integrity Protection enabled, does not modify protected files under /System directly, makes no network requests according to the developer, and is reversible using a built-in removemacai revert command that restores settings and lets macOS re-download models.
- Running RemoveMacAI disables a long list of Apple Intelligence features including Siri AI, Writing Tools, Genmoji, Image Playground, ChatGPT extension, summaries and smart replies, inline text predictions, Photos Clean Up, Spatial Photos, and Xcode predictive completion.
- Security and durability caveats noted across outlets include that some configuration-profile restriction keys the tool relies on were deprecated in earlier macOS releases, so a future macOS update could change those keys or asset behavior and break the tool; reporters advise auditing the open-source code and using it at your own risk.