RemoveMacAI for Mac

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:

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

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

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.

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

apply, undo, background and clean show the change first and ask. --dry-run shows it and stops, and --yes skips the question.

Tab completion for zsh, bash and fish is in completions. Each script says where it goes.

Demo video

For Mac admins

removemacai export writes the same configuration profile the app installs, so you can deploy it with Jamf, Kandji, Intune or any other MDM:

It holds the Apple Intelligence restrictions, the download block for removed models and the locked tweaks. Per-user tweaks such as Finder and Dock settings aren't in the profile; removemacai apply sets those on each Mac. removemacai tweaks --json reports the state of every tweak for compliance scripts.

iPhone and iPad

export --for iphone or export --for ipad writes a profile for that device:

An unsupervised phone only honors the Siri and ChatGPT switches.