How to disable Apple Intelligence properly

Lots of people—myself included—don’t use Apple Intelligence. Despite being turned off, it still takes up precious space, so I decided to create a simple tutorial showing how to disable it properly and remove all related data in the process.

Important

The terminal commands mentioned below won’t work outside of recovery mode.

1. Disable Apple Intelligence in System Settings.
2. Boot into Recovery Mode.
3. Open Disk Utility.
4. Right-click on Data under Macintosh HD and select Mount.
5. Quit Disk Utility and open Terminal.
6. Run the following command:
   bashCopy

   rm -rf /Volumes/Data/System/Library/AssetsV2/com_apple_MobileAsset_UAF_FM_GenerativeModels
   

7. If you used Image Playground, you also need to run:
   bashCopy

   rm -rf /Volumes/Data/System/Library/AssetsV2/com_apple_MobileAsset_UAF_FM_Visual
   

8. Reboot

Once that’s done, Apple Intelligence will no longer appear in Storage in System Settings.