Apple hasn’t exactly impressed with its AI offerings. And privacy-minded Mac users were even less compelled by the company’s decision, with macOS 27, to remove a setting that allowed you to disable and delete its Apple Intelligence features.
But never count an annoyed userbase out. As spotted by MacRumors, someone’s created a new open-source tool that allows Mac users to nuke every trace of Apple’s borderline useless AI models from their machines — and it’s already making waves in the Mac community.
The tool, called RemoveMacAI, disables Siri, Writing Tools, Genmoji, Image Playground, and the ChatGPT Extension, the developer explained in a r/MacOS post that’s received over a thousand upvotes. To ensure you keep living a blissful AI-free existence, the tool also prevents the Intelligence features from ever being downloaded again, the developer claims.
Even if you like AI features, you’d have to admit that Apple’s aren’t the most practical. The above “Genmoji” is a gimmicky tool that lets you use AI to generate custom emojis. Many discussions about it online are along the lines of “does anyone actually use this?”
