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RemoveMacAI

Turn off Apple Intelligence and delete its models. The app starts with just that. If you want to debloat further, it can also stop the analytics and ads, quiet the pop-ups, switch off other apps' background updaters and get disk space back. You see every change before it happens, and every change can be undone.


  



  omlahore.github.io/RemoveMacAI


Built on pared by 4evy, who did the hard work first: mapping Apple's asset service, the model sets and the settings keys the Apple Intelligence part relies on.

The Verge, Ars Technica, The Register, MacRumors, AppleInsider and Help Net Security have written about RemoveMacAI, and Daring Fireball linked to it.

 Install

 The app

Open Terminal (Applications  Utilities), paste this line and press Return:

sh
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/omlahore/RemoveMacAI/main/install.sh | bash -s app


It downloads the latest release, checks its SHA-256 checksum, puts RemoveMacAI in Applications and opens it.

To download it yourself instead, get RemoveMacAI.zip from the latest release, unzip it and drag RemoveMacAI to Applications. The app is not notarized, so the first time you open it macOS says it can't verify it. Open System Settings  Privacy & Security, scroll down and click Open Anyway.

 The command line

sh
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/omlahore/RemoveMacAI/main/install.sh | bash


This runs the command-line version from a temporary folder and installs nothing. With Homebrew:

sh
brew install omlahore/tap/removemacai


The app and the command line are the same program and share the same undo history. If you installed the app from the zip, choose RemoveMacAI  Install Command Line Tool… to get the removemacai command too.

 What it does


  
    
    
  


The app opens on Apple Intelligence alone. Show More Tools in the sidebar brings in the rest.

| Section | What you can turn off or change |
|---|---|
| Apple Intelligence | Siri, Writing Tools, Genmoji, Image Playground, ChatGPT, summaries in Mail, Messages, Safari, Notes and notifications, inline predictions, Spatial Photos, Photos Clean Up, Xcode predictive completion. The models are deleted and blocked from downloading again. Keep any feature you use. |
| Privacy | Mac Analytics, personalized ads, Improve Siri and Dictation, Improve Search, Spotlight internet results, Look Up suggestions, Safari search suggestions, Game Center |
| Annoyances | Clicking the wallpaper hiding every window, desktop widgets, the media keys, all Music launches (including AirPods; opt-in), iPhone Mirroring |
| Apple apps | Apple Music in the Music app, the Book Store, unused Apple apps in the Dock |
| Finder | File extensions, hidden files, the path and status bars, folders first, searching the current folder, the extension warning, .DS_Store files on network drives, emptying the Trash after 30 days, saving to your Mac instead of iCloud, the Library folder |
| Dock and windows | Recent apps, the auto-hide delay, bouncing icons, 

Top issues

Discussions

Latest release

- removemacai undo with no tweak names now asks you to name them, the way apply does, instead of saying nothing needs changing (57). Contributed by cosmicsid004 in 64.
- Commands no longer accept words and options they don't use, and --keep with nothing after it says it needs feature names (58). Contributed by sean0407 in 62.
- Remove unused Apple apps from the Dock now also takes Image Playground and Journal off the Dock (63).