omlahore/RemoveMacAI: Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk area again. One command, absolutely reversible. · GitHub
Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and take away its downloaded fashions.
macOS 27 now not has a single change for Apple Intelligence, and its fashions keep on disk after the options are turned off. RemoveMacAI turns the options off, removes the fashions and prevents macOS from downloading them once more. All modifications could be reverted.
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/omlahore/RemoveMacAI/main/install.sh | bash
The script downloads the most recent launch, verifies its SHA-256 checksum and runs it from a brief listing. Nothing is put in.
Every launch is constructed from its tag by GitHub Actions and carries a construct provenance attestation. To verify {that a} obtain got here from this repository’s supply:
gh attestation confirm removemacai-darwin-arm64.tar.gz -R omlahore/RemoveMacAI
With Homebrew:
brew set up omlahore/faucet/removemacai
removemacai
RemoveMacAI exhibits the present state and asks for affirmation. It then opens System Settings to put in its configuration profile, which macOS requires the consumer to approve, and removes the fashions.
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
removemacai |
Show the present state, then flip Apple Intelligence off |
removemacai standing |
Show every characteristic and the scale of the fashions on disk |
removemacai off --keep |
Leave the listed options on |
removemacai off --dry-run |
Show the modifications with out making use of them |
removemacai revert |
Undo all modifications |
removemacai options |
List the characteristic names accepted by --keep |
To revert with the one-line installer:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/omlahore/RemoveMacAI/main/install.sh | bash -s revert
Features turned off: Siri (together with “Hey Siri” and the menu bar icon), Writing Tools, Genmoji, Image Playground, the ChatGPT extension, summaries in Mail, Messages, Safari, Notes and notifications, Mail good replies, inline textual content predictions, Spatial Photos, Photos Clean Up and Xcode predictive code completion.
Models eliminated: the Apple Intelligence basis fashions and the fashions for picture era and Genmoji, Spatial Photos, Photos Clean Up and Xcode code completion.
- A configuration profile applies Apple’s restriction keys for Apple Intelligence and forces the settings that don’t have any restriction key.
- Models are eliminated by Apple’s asset service. System Integrity Protection stays enabled and no recordsdata underneath
/Systemare modified straight. - The profile redirects the obtain of every eliminated mannequin to a closed native port, so macOS doesn’t obtain it once more.
- Removing the profile restores the earlier settings. macOS downloads the fashions once more when a characteristic wants them.
RemoveMacAI makes no community requests and collects no information.
Does dictation nonetheless work?
Yes. Dictation is a separate setting, and its speech fashions usually are not eliminated.
Do macOS updates undo the modifications?
No. The profile, together with the obtain block, persists throughout updates.
Storage settings nonetheless lists Apple Intelligence after the fashions had been deleted.
Apple’s asset service releases the fashions straight away, however macOS deletes the recordsdata by itself schedule. Until then, System Settings > General > Storage retains counting them underneath Apple Intelligence.
Why is a course of named Siri nonetheless working?
In macOS 27 the Spotlight window runs as a course of named Siri. Some system companies additionally keep loaded; they’re protected by System Integrity Protection.
What stops working?
The options listed above, apps that use Apple’s on-device fashions (the Foundation Models framework and the Use Model motion in Shortcuts), Visual Intelligence and natural-language enhancing in Calendar.
Apple silicon.
| macOS | Status |
|---|---|
| 27 | Supported, examined on 27.0. On 27.0.1, use 0.2.3 or later. |
| 26 and earlier | Not supported |
Run removemacai revert, then brew uninstall removemacai if it was put in with Homebrew.
RemoveMacAI is constructed on pared, a whole working instrument by 4evy that first mapped the asset service, the mannequin units and a number of other of the settings keys. Its license is in THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md.
