苹果将人工智能集成到其各种操作系统中的尝试并没有完全受到欢迎，也没有决定让Apple Intelligence越来越难以完全禁用。值得庆幸的是，开源社区已经来救援。最近发布的一个名为RemoveMacAI的开源工具几乎完全符合它在GitHub托管的锡上所说的：积极地将Apple Intelligence从macOS中剥离出来，禁用其大部分AI功能，并在上个月推出macOS 27后删除下载的模型。
Apple’s attempt to integrate AI into its various operating systems hasn’t been entirely well received, nor has the decision to make Apple Intelligence increasingly difficult to disable completely. Thankfully, the open source community has come to the rescue. A recently released open source tool called RemoveMacAI does pretty much exactly what it says on the GitHub-hosted tin: Aggressively rips Apple Intelligence out of macOS, disabling most of its AI features and removing downloaded models following the launch of macOS 27 last month.
Siri AI？走了ChatGPT和其他人工智能扩展？淘汰Genmoji、为您的写作增添活力的随机框、通知和应用程序内容摘要以及自动照片清理？再也见不到了。更重要的是，RemoveMacAI可以收回苹果人工智能型号占用的存储空间--可能超过12 GB，具体取决于Mac。您可能会感到困惑，以为又是2025年了。RemoveMacAI的创始人Om Lahorey在LinkedIn帖子中表示，RemoveMacAI的推动力是，苹果几乎不可能在macOS 27中删除Apple Intelligence功能。
Siri AI? Gone. ChatGPT and other AI extensions? Eliminated. Genmoji, random boxes offering to jazz up your writing, summaries of notifications and app content, and automatic photo clean-up? Never to be seen again. More importantly, RemoveMacAI can claw back the storage occupied by Apple’s AI models - potentially over 12 GB, depending on the Mac. You might just get confused and think it’s 2025 again. The impetus for RemoveMacAI, its creator Om Lahorey said in a LinkedIn post, is the fact that Apple made it practically impossible to remove Apple Intelligence features in macOS 27. “The settings are spread across about a dozen places, some of them only under Screen Time,” Lahorey wrote over the weekend.
“这些设置分布在十几个地方，其中一些只在屏幕时间下，”Lahorey在周末写道。“即使每一个都关闭了，模型也会留在磁盘上。我想一步到位，所以我写了RemoveMacAI。不出所料，Lahorey的工具在Hacker News上爆炸了，很多人都很高兴有一种简单的方法可以摆脱Apple AI工具。截至撰写本文时，该回购已经有超过1，500颗星，因此它显然触动了沮丧的macOS用户的神经。正如其GitHub页面所解释的那样，它运行起来很简单：通过curl命令将其安装到其GitHub存储库中，或使用Homebrew，然后在终端中启动它。可以保留启用选定的功能，或者完全禁用Apple Intelligence，而单个命令可以恢复更改并恢复以前的设置。
“Even with every one turned off, the models stay on disk. I wanted it gone in one step, so I wrote RemoveMacAI.”Unsurprisingly, Lahorey’s tool blew up on Hacker News, with plenty of people happy for an easy way to get rid of Apple AI tools. As of writing, the repo has over 1,500 stars, so it's clearly struck a nerve with frustrated macOS users. It’s simple to run, as its GitHub page explains: install it via a curl command to its GitHub repo, or with Homebrew, and then fire it up in the terminal.
RemoveMacAI的工作原理是安装一个配置文件，该配置文件必须经过用户批准，该配置文件将Apple自己的限制密钥应用于Apple Intelligence功能。然后通过苹果的资产服务删除模型。Lahorey将另一个名为“Docs”的开源工具及其开发人员映射了删除Apple Intelligence所需的资产服务、模型集和设置键。Pared功能与RemoveMacAI类似-您可以认为RemoveMacAI是另一种工具的更用户友好的包装器。
Selected features can be left enabled, or Apple Intelligence can be disabled completely, while a single command can revert the changes and restore the previous settings. RemoveMacAI works by installing a configuration profile, which the user has to approve, that applies Apple’s own restriction keys for Apple Intelligence features. Models are then removed via Apple’s asset service. Lahorey credits another open source tool called pared, and its developer, with mapping the asset service, model sets, and settings keys needed to remove Apple Intelligence. Pared functions similarly to RemoveMacAI – you can consider RemoveMacAI to be a more user-friendly wrapper for the other tool.
至于它是否会持续存在，Lahorey解释说，RemoveMacAI安装的配置文件将Apple Intelligence型号的下载重定向到关闭的本地端口，因此macOS的更新不应导致型号被重新安装。还值得一提的是，Apple系统完整性保护在禁用和卸载模式的情况下仍然处于启用状态，因为该工具不会直接修改系统下的任何文件。由于RemoveMacAI没有删除语音模型，口述应该仍然可以工作。
As for whether it will persist, Lahorey explains that the config profile RemoveMacAI installs redirects the download for Apple Intelligence models to a closed local port, so updates to macOS shouldn’t result in the models being reinstalled. Also worth mentioning, Apple System Integrity Protection remains enabled with the models disabled and uninstalled, as no files under System are directly modified by the tool. Dictation should still work as well, as speech models aren’t removed by RemoveMacAI.
也就是说，未来的macOS更新肯定有可能会破坏RemoveMacAI的功能。因此，如果您有兴趣尝试一下该工具，则不能保证这个特定的逃生舱门将永远保持打开。®
That said, it’s certainly possible a future macOS update will break RemoveMacAI’s functionality. So if you’re interested in giving the tool a shot, there’s no guarantee this particular escape hatch will remain open forever. ®