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Free Up Space Used by Apple Intelligence

A script was previously used to enable Apple Intelligence, but macOS 26.5 broke it. The model files still take up disk space though. Here's how to manually remove them:

  1. System Settings → Apple Intelligence & Siri → Turn off Apple Intelligence

  2. Shut down your Mac, then press and hold the power button to enter Startup Options (or Cmd+R for Intel Macs) and select Recovery Mode

  3. Open Disk Utility from the recovery menu

  4. Select "Macintosh HD" on the left, right-click the Data volume under it → Mount

  5. Quit Disk Utility, then go to Utilities → Terminal from the menu bar

  6. Run the following commands in Terminal:

bash
rm -rf /Volumes/Data/System/Library/AssetsV2/com_apple_MobileAsset_UAF_FM_GenerativeModels
rm -rf /Volumes/Data/System/Library/AssetsV2/com_apple_MobileAsset_UAF_FM_Visual
rm -rf /Volumes/Data/System/Library/AssetsV2/com_apple_MobileAsset_UAF_FM_Overrides
  1. Restart your Mac

This will free up about 10GB of space. The model files won't be re-downloaded as long as Apple Intelligence remains disabled.

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