Overview
- The RemoveMacAI repository was published on GitHub on Sunday and offers a one‑line installer and a Homebrew package to apply its changes.
- The tool uses a user‑approved configuration profile that calls Apple restriction keys, removes models via Apple’s asset service, and redirects model downloads to a closed local port while keeping System Integrity Protection enabled.
- Users report it frees roughly 10–12 GB of storage for many machines with some cases showing larger recoveries depending on which models were present.
- Removing the models disables Apple Intelligence features such as Siri enhancements, Writing Tools, Genmoji, Image Playground, ChatGPT integration, summaries and Xcode predictive completion while dictation remains unaffected and reverting the profile causes macOS to re‑download models when a feature needs them.
- The project is open source with SHA‑256 checksums and build attestations, it builds on prior mapping work by 4evy, and the developer warns that some restriction keys were deprecated in macOS 26.4 so future macOS updates could break the approach.