Apple Intelligence Taking up 30GB+ on Some Macs Running macOS 27
Apple Intelligence Taking up 30GB+ on Some Macs Running macOS 27Wednesday September 23, 2026 3:30 am PDT by Tim HardwickAfter you install macOS 27 Golden Gate, Apple automatically downloads a multi-gigabyte AI model to your Mac the next time it's connected to the internet. Unlike previous versions of macOS, you can't prevent it. Siri AI, and by extension Apple Intelligence, are now a mandatory part of your system.
- ▪Apple Intelligence Taking up 30GB+ on Some Macs Running macOS 27Wednesday September 23, 2026 3:30 am PDT by Tim HardwickAfter you install macOS 27 Golden Gate, Apple automatically downloads a multi-gigabyte AI model to your Mac the next tim
- ▪Unlike previous versions of macOS, you can't prevent it.
- ▪Siri AI, and by extension Apple Intelligence, are now a mandatory part of your system.
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Apple Intelligence Taking up 30GB+ on Some Macs Running macOS 27Wednesday September 23, 2026 3:30 am PDT by Tim HardwickAfter you install macOS 27 Golden Gate, Apple automatically downloads a multi-gigabyte AI model to your Mac the next time it's connected to the internet. Unlike previous versions of macOS, you can't prevent it. Siri AI, and by extension Apple Intelligence, are now a mandatory part of your system. For macOS 27 Golden Gate, Apple says the latest Apple Intelligence features require up to 14GB of on-device storage on Macs with an M3 chip or later and at least 12GB of unified memory, and up to 8GB of storage for other Apple Intelligence-enabled Macs. But in our experience, AI model storage allocation appears to be considerably higher on some Macs than others.
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