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Apple hasn\u2019t exactly impressed with its AI offerings. And privacy-minded Mac users were even less compelled by the company\u2019s decision, with macOS 27, to remove a setting that allowed you to disable and delete its Apple Intelligence features.<\/p>\n
But never count an annoyed userbase out. As spotted by MacRumors<\/a>, someone\u2019s created a new open-source tool that allows Mac users to nuke every trace of Apple\u2019s borderline useless AI models from their machines \u2014 and it\u2019s already making waves in the Mac community.<\/p>\n The tool, called RemoveMacAI, disables Siri, Writing Tools, Genmoji, Image Playground, and the ChatGPT Extension, the developer explained<\/a> in a r\/MacOS post that\u2019s received over a thousand upvotes. To ensure you keep living a blissful AI-free existence, the tool also prevents the Intelligence features from ever being downloaded again, the developer claims.<\/p>\n Even if you like AI features, you\u2019d have to admit that Apple\u2019s aren\u2019t the most practical. The above \u201cGenmoji\u201d is a gimmicky tool that lets you use AI to generate custom emojis. Many discussions about it online are along the lines of \u201cdoes anyone actually use this?\u201d<\/p>\n The upshot is that many feel that they aren\u2019t worth the disk space they take up. Using RemoveMacAI could save you around 12 GB of storage, but some users say their Apple AI installation takes up a full 35 GB. Neither number is anything to sneeze at, considering that many owners opt for the most affordable MacBooks with just 256 GB of storage.<\/p>\n