How do I delete Apple Intelligence from iPad Air 5 to free up storage?

Yeah you can turn it off (I also have being that it seems nowhere near to ready yet, hence Beta) but you can’t seem to remove it from storage just by turning it off. It’ll stay there, redundant in the background taking up space. Hope that helps

I have an update: knowing that Apple does not like customers to have too many buttons and options to fiddle with, I thought that if I put some pressure on my iPad storage maybe Apple will delete the storage taken by AI. So I installed as much as I could to fill up my 64GB and at some point Apple deleted the7gb of AI. At least this has worked.

Its currency holding a size of 6.04GB on my ipad. It IS ridiculous that we don’t have a say in whether it can be removed or not, irrespective of the already bloated base models.

Reset your device to Factory Settings and do not turn on Apple Intelligence. Once turned on the models will be downloaded and be part of the OS installation where you will not be able to remove them.

Yes, really. Ebersj’s statement that Apple Intelligence adds another 7 GB to the storage required for iPadOS is correct and is backed by Apple. It’s a valid concern to have when compatible devices were sold with anemic storage. No one is claiming that 7 GB of storage is gone once Apple Intelligence is enabled, so it’s pointless to keep refuting a point that no one made.

The amount of data that Apple Intelligence is currently taking up on a device varies and the significance of that amount is subjective.

Currently, it is common to see Apple Intelligence use 2 - 6 GB of storage on a device depending. When Apple Intelligence first started rolling out, it required 4 GB of storage. Two months later it is now 7 GB. It’s safe to forecast that the storage requirement, and the amount of storage that it’s occupying on a device will increase as more features are added and Apple Intelligences nears the end of its beta. 

Again, it is valid for people who purchased compatible devices with almost half of its storage consumed by the OS, or people who do not purchase iCloud storage to offload to to be concerned with Apple Intelligence’s growing storage requirement. It’s valid for them to seek a way to manage the storage that it’s taking up on their device, and it appears the only way to do that is by doing what Mac Jim ID suggested to do. Using devices with little free space is more common than one would think, but it would take one to look past their own hubris to see that. 

Apple Intelligence does take up significant storage. I went in device storage in settings and down to iOS. Click on that and it shows the amount of storage taken by Apple Intelligence on top of standard iOS. On mine it is 5.79GB.

I found the old-school way of deleting Apple Intelligence data on my iPhone. Just go to settings--->Apple Intelligence and Siri--->Turn off Apple Intelligence.

After that, if you have a Mac, then connect the iPhone to your Mac using a data cable, and restore from Mac. Yes, it will erase all the data, but do back it up in iCloud or Mac, and you'll be fine. Hope it helps!

No one is forcing you to do anything. Technology advances faster than hardware does. That's never going to change. What was just fine a year or two ago, may not be fine now or in the future. One way to help yourself to somewhat future proof is to buy the most memory you can afford.

I think, as an ex software engineering and product manager, it is a mistake not to provide a means for Apple Intelligence to be easily uninstalled. Especially when it takes up such a significant amount of storage. Seems to be unreasonable to expect someone to reset their iPad and setup from a backup to do it.

And, although an Apple fan, think Apple’s incremental pricing on storage is ludicrous. At least they are now defaulting to 128GB on latest phones and tablets.

Hubert001 wrote:

hi, does this automatically download when you update the iPadOS, or you have to download it?

Assuming you have an eligible iPad, when you update to iOS 18.3.1, Apple Intelligence will be automatically installed and turned on. Again, this presumes your have a device which can run Apple Intelligence, you're not in the EU or China, your device wasn't manufactured for the China Market and you have set the language AND Siri language to a supported language for Apple Intelligence.

If it is turned on and you don't want to use it, simply turn it off.

I think the behaviour has changed with 18.3. With earlier versions you had to go into settings turn it on and then it would download. I read somewhere that changed with 18.3 and it now downloads automatically as long as your device is compatible.

So should I have apple intelligence on or off on my iPad Air m3 worried about how much ram it consumes in background/idle does having it toggled on effect overall performance say gaming for example vs off.

So should I have apple intelligence on or off on my iPad Air m3 worried about how much ram it consumes in background/idle does having it toggled on effect overall performance say gaming for example vs off.