omlahore/RemoveMacAI
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Turn off Apple Intelligence and delete its models on your Mac. Optional tweaks for analytics, ads and pop-ups. A native app and CLI, and every change can be undone.
7 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 1 story, 6 comments · first 2026-10-04 · latest 2026-11-03
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…AI engineer, solutions, platform or SRE roles, and I can join immediately. I built RemoveMacAI ( https://github.com/omlahore/RemoveMacAI ), a macOS app that turns off Apple Intelligence and removes its models. It hit #1 on Hacker News and…
comment by onyx47 · 2026-11-03 · in Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) -
…even use GPS any more, since I trashed Apple Maps when they kissed the Emperor's big fanny. [0] https://github.com/omlahore/RemoveMacAI
comment by k310 · 2026-10-27 · in New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6 -
Reclaim your disk space: https://github.com/omlahore/RemoveMacAI/
comment by JBiserkov · 2026-10-16 · in New Withings Users Must Pay $99/Year for Apple Health Syncing -
…yesterday. I am concerned about this issue where after doing it, the system data exploded to 74 GB: https://github.com/omlahore/RemoveMacAI/issues/32 Ideally would like Apple to give this option.
comment by busymom0 · 2026-10-07 · in Tell HN: Apple not letting removal of AI models on macOS 27 is outrageous -
…agree with you, there is an unofficial (and reversible) tool which can help you reclaim this space: https://github.com/omlahore/RemoveMacAI (to be complete: it seems to be based on https://github.com/4evy/pared ) discussed here:…
comment by lode · 2026-10-07 · in Tell HN: Apple not letting removal of AI models on macOS 27 is outrageous -
…This is a non issue in the real world. Please take a look at this before making any assertions... https://github.com/omlahore/RemoveMacAI/blob/main/install.sh
comment by hnfong · 2026-10-04 · in Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back