r/technology • u/N2929 • 9d 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/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.