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.

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:

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

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:

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, minimizing into the app icon, window animations, gaps between tiled windows, screenshot shadows
Typing	Autocorrect, smart quotes and dashes, the double-space period, automatic capitals, the accent menu on held keys
Background items	Updaters and helpers other apps install, such as Google's updater, shown with what they run and switched off one by one
Storage	Old macOS installers, aerial wallpaper videos, iPhone and iPad update files, Xcode build data and device support, unavailable simulators, app caches, Time Machine local snapshots, and Apple's optional apps (GarageBand and its sound library, iMovie, Keynote, Numbers, Pages)

Two presets get you started. Recommended turns Apple Intelligence, analytics and ads off and removes the pop-ups, and leaves alone anything you rely on. Maximum privacy adds Game Center and Safari's search suggestions. Both add to what is already applied, and nothing changes until you review it.

Command line

Command	Description
removemacai	Show the state of Apple Intelligence, then turn it off
removemacai status	Show each Apple Intelligence feature and the size of its models
removemacai off --keep <features>	Turn Apple Intelligence off but leave the listed features on
removemacai on	Turn Apple Intelligence back on and keep the other changes
removemacai tweaks	List every tweak and whether it is applied (--json for scripts)
removemacai apply <tweaks>	Apply tweaks by name
removemacai apply --preset recommended	Apply a preset, Apple Intelligence off included
removemacai undo <tweaks>	Undo tweaks by name
removemacai background	List other apps' background items; off or on with their labels
removemacai clean	Show the space you can get back; name items to move them to the Trash
removemacai export <file>	Write the configuration profile for an MDM
removemacai export <file> --for iphone|ipad	Write an iPhone or iPad profile
removemacai revert	Undo everything RemoveMacAI changed
removemacai app	Open the app

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