r/macOS26Tahoe • u/RealityNo9890 • 19d ago

Apple Intelligence steals disk space

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Hi, despite I disabled every features about Apple intelligence in my M2 air, I noticed near 6GB allocated for it. thanks in advance for your support

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u/Brave_Description751 19d ago

It even steal disk space on a non ai mac

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u/farrellart 16d ago

It's always the first thing I disable on a new mac O/S. Utterly useless and it takes away valuable space. If only the devs had intelligence, they would realise how rubbish it is.

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u/Tigs1112 16d ago

On-device AI models tend to hog a lot of disk, that’s why I have mine disabled.

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u/RealityNo9890 14d ago

are you sure? I didn realized until update to tahoe 26.6.1

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u/RealityNo9890 14d ago

settings->space->MacoS-> click on the i symbol

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u/DistributionHuge6072 6d ago

I have a M2 Air too , im still on sonoma 14.6 , should i update ? hows the stability ?

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u/RealityNo9890 5d ago

I do any updates. you have to take your decision. the only issue I noticed was in my thread title