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Hello everyone. Recently, macOS version 27.2 has been released. In principle,
in this version you cannot disable the built-in AI that the system brings anywhere officially,
which might be fine for many people who actually make use of that AI,
but for those who don't use it, like in my case, there is no official way to remove it.
For this, some time ago a group of people on GitHub created a sort of application
that is in charge of removing all these kinds of unnecessary connections and pop-ups,
because on top of that, pop-up alerts keep jumping at you every two minutes regarding Apple
Intelligence. It removes the system models, meaning you are also saving space,
and since they aren't running, you are also saving on RAM consumption.
It does a series of things to keep the system even more fluid. I am going to install it because
I do not use Apple Intelligence in any way. To be honest, I don't even use Siri. Well,
let's get down to business. The repository is this one right here, I'll be leaving it in the video description as well.
There are several ways to install it. We can either use it directly from a command in the terminal,
where we can even execute it, use it, and have it self-delete.
But I am going to download it first so that it's clearer, the process is simpler, and
because I am going to leave it installed. In principle, I'm going here to the latest
releases. The app is RemoveMacAI. Right, downloaded. Let's unzip it. As indicated in
the description, the app is not signed, so we will have to give it execution permissions.
Let's drag it from here to here.
I already have it in Applications, and surely upon running it for the first time, well, there it is. Good,
we get this warning. This is when we have to go to System Settings.
We go to Privacy & Security. Privacy & Security. Accept.
Privacy & Security.
Here it is. Right, we have it here. "RemoveMacAI.app was blocked to protect your…"
We open it anyway. We tell it to open anyway. We enter the Mac password
and we already have it here. This is the app. What we have here is a sort of explanation of what
it does, what the app is responsible for doing. And we can select, let's say, the most basic things.
Let's set it for now to what is recommended, because later we could change more things as we can see,
eh, add extras, but in principle I'm going to leave it as recommended and take
a closer look. This says: What will it do?
It will disable every Apple Intelligence function, remove the models, meaning it will save us
9 GB of space. Eh, here it is. macOS will download them again whenever it needs them.
Eh, disable or enable or disable, it says, Mac analytics, personalized advertising,
Siri and dictation improvements, search improvements, it disables internet search
from Spotlight. Suggestions are also disabled, it removes files from external devices.
Eh, this isn't really an AI feature, it has nothing to do with it, but hey, if it's there, it doesn't hurt.
Well, in principle I have these changes, I'm going to apply them right now. Profile downloaded. Review
the profile in System Settings if you want to install it. It says,
eh,
we have to give permission to the app
inside Device Management,
and it makes sense because otherwise it won't let you change anything.
Let's check the restrictions as well.
Well, it's all there, right? It's not necessary to get into… Alright, with this it already applies the settings.
It's disabling it, removing it. Done. Right, let's see what else the app has
because basically it has more things and you can do other stuff with it. Apple Intelligence,
for now, is disabled, so out. We could remove or enable
certain things from here: extensions, Siri, Genmojis,
Image Playground, notification summaries for Mail, Messages, Safari, Notes… In Privacy,
disable Mac analytics, everything we said before is here. Search suggestions from
Safari can be disabled so it doesn't send them to Apple's data centers
or search engine data centers, but it doesn't matter to me because I don't use Safari anyway.
I use Chrome and Brave more than Safari. I think I've opened Safari once in a blue moon,
but I usually don't. Game Center could also be disabled if it's not used. I leave it a bit
more than anything for compatibility when playing something, but it's not a priority for me
right now, so I'm going to leave it because it doesn't change anything either. It's mostly privacy stuff and that's it.
Ignore, right? "Stop clicking". These are… Let's see, here is to hide widgets,
to stop windows from unfocusing every time you click on the desktop. But all that
I already have disabled from the settings. You can do it from here too. From here
we can block the Music app from opening when pressing the play key on the keyboard. I
imagine this uses the typical script that opens it and closes it,
something like that. Disabling Apple Music inside the Music app either, it doesn't bother me.
The Books one neither. Removing Apple apps from the Dock. This is to
remove the default ones. Background: these are things running in the background. Well,
basically these are things that I have and they don't pose any problem. Customization
of Finder itself is also what we are touching. The Dock also lets you do things. The
autocorrect, automatic capitalization… Space you can recover. Let's see how this works,
eh, Xcode cache, Pages cache, application caches. Look, I'm going to clear the caches
since they're there, and these other three I don't mind. Video backgrounds can also be removed.
So, I'm saving 6.7 GB here. Send it all to the trash. Not
that I'm lacking space, but if it recovers storage and disables Apple Intelligence, which is
what I was looking for, then more than enough. Well, technically with this we've already saved space,
but basically it disables artificial intelligence functions and communications with
Apple's data center. So that's it. Eh, a simple app, a quick script,
no big deal. With this you should be able to disable the artificial intelligence stuff
if you don't use it like I do. The thing is I use it, but I don't use it integrated into the system,
I use it externally. Meaning, I don't want it integrated in my system because I want to control what things
it accesses, what it can and cannot do. I don't want it in all this. At some point I hope they
themselves enable a way to disable it, because this way is a bit intrusive, or so it seems to me.
Lately, with the new versions of macOS, we’ve found that Apple has forced AI upon us and, at least officially, there is no way to completely disable it –at least for now. For those of us who don’t use it at all, it feels quite intrusive. Luckily, there is a project on GitHub called Remove Mac AI that fixes exactly this.
The application is very simple and takes care of cleaning out all the unnecessary stuff. Basically, it completely disables Apple Intelligence features, cuts off unnecessary connections to Apple’s servers, deletes local system models –saving you a few gigabytes of space and RAM– and stops typical analytics or annoying warnings.
Using it is no big deal: you download the repository, decompress it, and since it’s not signed, you grant the necessary permissions from Privacy & Security in your Mac settings. Upon opening it, I recommend going with the preconfigured option that sets the recommended settings. It applies the changes all at once and you’re done. A quick, straightforward tool, and perfect if you prefer to stay in control of what runs on your computer.
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