# An open-source tool lets you delete 12GB of Apple Intelligence data on macOS > Source: > Published: 2026-10-06 07:47:07.335990+00:00 [Hacker News](https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1004672/mac-delete-apple-intelligence-ai-tool) ### An open-source tool lets you delete 12GB of Apple Intelligence data on macOS Which summary reads better? Pick one — models revealed after.Both summaries are AI-generated. Local Apple Intelligence foundation models consume 12GB of storage on macOS even when disabled, but the new open-source RemoveMacAI tool now allows developers to completely purge these models and block their background redownloads. For engineering teams provisioning macOS development machines or CI runners, this provides a programmatic way to reclaim disk space and eliminate background AI processes, though it will break any workflows dependent on native system-level LLM integrations. RemoveMacAI allows for the deletion of 12GB of on-disk Apple Intelligence foundation models and the blocking of their redownload. This enables recovery of significant local storage on macOS deployments where AI features are disabled or restricted.