An open-source tool lets you delete 12GB of Apple Intelligence data on macOS
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Local Apple Intelligence foundation models consume 12GB of storage on macOS even when disabled, but the new open-source RemoveMacAI tool now allows developers to completely purge these models and block their background redownloads. For engineering teams provisioning macOS development machines or CI runners, this provides a programmatic way to reclaim disk space and eliminate background AI processes, though it will break any workflows dependent on native system-level LLM integrations.
RemoveMacAI allows for the deletion of 12GB of on-disk Apple Intelligence foundation models and the blocking of their redownload. This enables recovery of significant local storage on macOS deployments where AI features are disabled or restricted.