What each setting does
Each row says what the setting changes and warns you when something stops working, like games that need Game Center. Settings with a lock go into one configuration profile, and macOS asks you to approve it.
Debloat your Mac.
RemoveMacAI turns off Apple Intelligence and deletes its models. It also switches off Mac Analytics and personalized ads, fixes small things like the wallpaper click that hides every window, and clears out old installers and caches. You see each change before it happens and can undo it later.
Apple Intelligence removal builds on pared by 4evy.
Or from Terminal:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/omlahore/RemoveMacAI/main/install.sh | bash -s app
Ars Technica, MacRumors, AppleInsider and Help Net Security have written about RemoveMacAI, and Daring Fireball linked to it.
What it turns off
macOS 27 has no single switch for Apple Intelligence, and turning the features off leaves the models on disk. RemoveMacAI switches each feature off, deletes the models and blocks macOS from downloading them again. If you use one of them, say Writing Tools, keep it on and its models stay.
0 of 12 switched off
Siri
Writing Tools
Genmoji and Image Playground
ChatGPT
SummariesMail, Messages, Safari, Notes and notifications
Inline text predictions
Photos Clean Up and Spatial Photos
Mac Analytics
Personalized ads
Spotlight internet results
Improve Siri recordings
The play key opening Music
All 40 settings
Start from one of the two presets or go through the settings one at a time. Each says what it changes and what you lose, which for most of them is nothing.
Privacy
Mac Analytics, personalized ads, Improve Siri and Dictation, Improve Search, Spotlight internet results, Look Up and Safari suggestions, Game Center.
Annoyances
Clicking the wallpaper hiding every window, desktop widgets, the play key opening Music, iPhone Mirroring.
Apple apps
The Music app without the Apple Music store, Books without the Book Store, and the Apple apps you never open out of the Dock.
Finder
Show file extensions, hidden files and the path bar, keep folders on top, stop .DS_Store files on network drives and empty the Trash after 30 days.
Dock and windows
Hide recent apps, drop the auto-hide delay and the bouncing icons, and turn off window animations and the gaps between tiled windows.
Typing
Turn off autocorrect, smart quotes and dashes, the double-space period and automatic capitals, and get key repeat back instead of the accent menu.
Background items
Google's updater and the other helpers apps leave running in the background, each with its own switch.
Storage
Old macOS installers, aerial wallpaper videos, iPhone update files, Xcode leftovers, app caches and Time Machine snapshots. Files go to the Trash, so you can still change your mind.
Review before anything changes
The review sheet lists every change and the exact command behind it. Undo restores the value each setting had before, and removing the profile undoes everything it locked.
How it works
System Integrity Protection stays on
RemoveMacAI uses a configuration profile, Apple's own asset service and the same preferences System Settings writes. Nothing under /System is modified.
Apple's apps stay installed
They live on the sealed system volume, and removing them risks a Mac that won't start. RemoveMacAI quiets them instead and removes the optional apps Apple lets you delete.
No data collection
RemoveMacAI makes no network requests and collects no data. The source is on GitHub, and every release is built from its tag with a provenance attestation.
Install
The app
Paste this in Terminal. It downloads the latest release, checks its checksum, puts RemoveMacAI in Applications and opens it.
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/omlahore/RemoveMacAI/main/install.sh | bash -s appDownload
Download RemoveMacAI.zip, unzip it and drag RemoveMacAI to Applications. The app isn't notarized, so the first time you open it, go to System Settings > Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway.
Command line
The same program, without the app. This command runs it once from a temporary folder and installs nothing.
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/omlahore/RemoveMacAI/main/install.sh | bashHomebrew
brew install omlahore/tap/removemacaiFor Mac admins
Export the profile and deploy it with Jamf, Kandji, Intune or any MDM.
removemacai export RemoveMacAI.mobileconfig --preset recommended
removemacai tweaks --json