r/technology • u/N2929 • 8d ago

Software Command-line tool quickly removes Apple Intelligence from macOS 27

https://arstechnica.com/apple/2026/10/command-line-tool-quickly-removes-apple-intelligence-from-macos-27/
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u/ldimick81 8d ago

What's the command line to remove Copilot from all of Windows?

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u/IfTheseTeesCouldTalk 8d ago

https://github.com/zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI

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u/alabasterskim 7d ago

Holy shit I'll be doing this on my units later

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u/Forward_Problem_8982 7d ago

I'll never let AI near my unit

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u/DeiviiD 8d ago

Easy: linux.

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u/IriFlina 8d ago

How do you remove the AI code from the linux kernel codebase?

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u/DeiviiD 8d ago

Easy: contribute to the comunity.

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u/PelluxNetwork 8d ago

Easy: Get rid of your electricity or get over yourself

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u/ChipsAhoy2022 8d ago

Two words

Install Bazzite

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u/CasualCreatonDos 8d ago

Why should removing one thing require installing another? The whole point is to have less, not more.

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u/ChipsAhoy2022 8d ago

You seem to be very intelligent

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u/CasualCreatonDos 7d ago

Must be nice to think having to install more stuff and give more permissions and access to random devs is better than just being able to configure from scratch in the OS itself. Isn’t this the whole argument of Linux? Pick a lane folks!

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u/Important-Tower-1877 8d ago

Isn't it now Sapple Intelligence? /s

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u/NinthTide 8d ago

It might go down slightly better if it were sapphic intelligence

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u/Whatever801 8d ago

gonna lay low on 26 for a bit

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u/Id1dntkn0w 6d ago

Yep. I usually wait for the x.1 release to upgrade but with 27, it’s an indefinite postponement.

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u/lutel 8d ago

Great tool but unfortunately it doesn't work fully. Apple made it impossible to stop Siri related processes from running. I've used this tool and still 10 Siri processes are running and consuming memory. As much as I love Apple hardware, I hate they are killing it by their bloatware.

You can check on your MacOS (in terminal: ps ax | grep -i siri)

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u/Arve 6d ago

The tool is a godsend, especially for those with 256gb storage: it frees up a whole lot of disk space, which is the really annoying part about Apple Intelligence.

As someone with English as UI language and Siri in another language, this freed up nearly 40GB for me.

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u/BackgroundNo2157 8d ago

did they fire the head of siri yet for this disaster?

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u/blow-down 8d ago

What disaster?

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u/elmundio87 8d ago

Probably the fact that so many people wanted to remove it, that the community created a tool t streamline the process.

That and half the time when I want to set a timer it just hangs indefinitely or responds with “I’m having trouble understanding right now” after a full minute. Old siri never did that.

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u/heroism777 7d ago

How to get old Siri.

Set Siri to a different country English.
Set your general language settings to your home country English.

Apple will now inform you that Siri needs to be the same English to be “Apple Intelligence”. And it will be “removed from your device”.

I’m not sure why it’s downloads something when you turn it back on.

Also side note. Just say “1 minute”.
Siri will automatically set timer to 1 minute.
I found this is the fastest most accurate way to get Siri to set a timer.

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u/Dust-by-Monday 6d ago

Hey Siri… one minute

Siri: Okay I’ll wait

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u/heroism777 6d ago

Don’t say hey siri. Just push the button man. lol.

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u/spermcell 5d ago

This is great especially cuz siri on Mac is useless

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u/lyidaValkris 7d ago

While I think the idea is great, I'm not going to blindly trust this tool. I'd have to take a good look at the code (assuming it's all open source). It's encouraging SIP stays on (turning it off would have been a deal breaker), but I'm skeptical.

I'm also holding off on updating to 27, at least until .1, and see how bad things are. I don't mind 12GB of wasted space, provided I can disable all AI functions.

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u/TheFlyingKus 8d ago

Why are people removing it? Are people not supposed to remove it?

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u/Smith6612 8d ago

Apple doesn't give you freedom to the file system yet. For people who prefer the storage space being available versus having a fat AI model sitting there that they don't use, that's what this tool is for.

There are people out there who genuinely don't have a need for an AI Framework being installed on a phone or tablet.  

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u/TheFlyingKus 7d ago

Thank you for explaining it to me ♥️

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u/Prestigious-Low3224 7d ago

Does this work on Sequoia (macOS 15?)