{"id":8120,"date":"2026-10-05T13:59:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T13:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=8120"},"modified":"2026-10-05T13:59:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T13:59:54","slug":"mac-delete-apple-intelligence-ai-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=8120","title":{"rendered":"An open-source tool lets you delete 12GB of Apple Intelligence data on macOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1lkuyz89 _1lkuyz88 _19wv7tc1\">You have to find about a dozen settings, and several of them are under Screen Time. Even when everything is off, the foundation models stay on disk, and that\u2019s about 12 GB. I wrote RemoveMacAI to do all of it in one go. 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