THE CRUNCH
A new open-source command line tool called RemoveMacAI promises to free up storage on your Mac by deleting Apple's AI features. Per The Verge, it can reclaim around 12GB by removing the on-device models and switching Apple Intelligence off, something that used to be a simple Settings toggle.
The context matters: macOS once had a single Settings toggle for disabling Apple Intelligence, but that was removed in macOS 27. The models now stay on your disk, and the related features are scattered across different settings panes.
According to the developer's post on Reddit, which MacRumors spotted earlier, the tool essentially does what the old settings toggle did, deleting the models and turning the features off. The developer noted that you have to find about a dozen settings to do this manually, and several of them are tucked under Screen Time.