I woke up this morning and saw my disk usage bumped up slightly. My first thought wasn’t “maybe I built something and it took up space”, my first thought was “it surely fucking isn’t”. I left it at that. I disabled siri, surely it must’ve not installed the bullshit models that are a time and space waster
Then I went ahead and selected a ton of text in Safari while I was looking at PFSense, and I noticed an Icon I deemed undesirable on the left side. When I clicked on it though… the Apple Intelligence menu popped up, which doesn’t pop up unless it’s installed.
And wouldn’t you fucking know it, it was exactly what I hoped it wasn’t
So I went ahead and YELLED at Codex to try and remove it (because it could clean my mac properly, might as well let it try). It couldn’t do shit. So, naturally, I went on X to beg for help, when someone said they made a project that covered exactly this.
The Actual How-To
The project’s name is Pared. It’s available on GitHub
Let’s use it.
Step 1: Install the damn thing
Assuming you have Homebrew (why would anyone not have it), tap into the repo and install the program:
brew tap 4evy/pared https://github.com/4evy/pared.git
brew install 4evy/pared/paredStep 2: Set your policies and install the profile
Pared needs a policy setup. You first need to disable ALL of the crap, and then install the profile.
pared disable all
pared profile openStep 3: Open System Settings and install the profile
This one’s pretty self-explanatory. It’s gonna give you all the info the profile changes inside of the System Preferences, and the thing you need to click on is below your name.
Step 4: Reboot
This is going to release the models, and will allow Pared to delete them
Step 5: Verify and delete others
Let’s verify the profile and delete everything
pared profile status
pared models cleanupStep 6: Bask in the glory of your Mac FINALLY CLEAN of this horseshit!
Open System Preferences, General, Storage and then look at the system usage. Apple Intelligence will show NOTHING. No writing tools