Remove Apple Intelligence: How to reclaim 30 GB of storage

TVS News AI, editorially supervised, presents Remove Apple Intelligence: How to reclaim 30 GB of storage.

Imagine you open the storage manager on your Mac and see: 30 GB gone – and you haven't installed any games, no videos, no new apps. What's eating up the space is Apple Intelligence. The AI features Apple has deeply embedded in macOS consume around 30 GB of storage, per t3n.

Apple Intelligence is difficult to remove from Macs. Yet the AI features, some deeply integrated into the system, take up a lot of storage space.

Why Apple Intelligence is so persistent

The problem isn't just the storage it occupies – it's that you can barely get rid of the AI components. macOS treats the AI features as part of itself – normal cleanup routines and the usual "move to Trash" tactic don't work here. Apple's own paths to cleanly uninstalling this stuff are few and far between.

What the open-source tool does differently

A new open-source tool is meant to provide a fix. The key: because the source code is open, you can see exactly what the tool actually touches on your Mac before using it. Still, a script with sweeping system permissions isn't a click on "Uninstall" – make a backup first, read the project's website, and check whether the version matches your macOS.

Is the storage trade worth it?

In the end, it's a simple trade-off: 30 GB of free storage in exchange for losing the Apple Intelligence features. On a Mac with a small SSD, that can be worth it. Anyone who uses the AI features regularly should leave it alone and keep their favorite functions. For everyone else, the tool finally offers a realistic option to reclaim storage that macOS otherwise doesn't release.