What is the IntelligencePlatform folder on a Mac?
~/Library/IntelligencePlatform holds the on device knowledge macOS builds about your apps and activity. 108 MB on our Mac, in a handful of databases.
What is IntelligencePlatform?
It is where macOS keeps an on device store of knowledge about you and your Mac: people, places, apps and how they relate. Personal suggestions, and Apple Intelligence features that use personal context, read from it. The names inside (knowledge, graph, ontology, behaviors) say as much. Apple does not document the folder itself.
What is inside it?
| Item | Size here | What it looks like |
|---|---|---|
globalKnowledge.db | 49 MB | General knowledge the features rely on |
Artifacts | 42 MB | Supporting data, about 120 files |
behaviors.db, views.db and their -wal files | 10 MB | Learned patterns of use |
graph.db, ontology.db, keyvalue.db and -wal files | 5.7 MB | The knowledge graph itself |
108 MB and 158 files in all. The -wal files are SQLite write logs; they belong to the database beside them.
Is it safe to delete?
Not recommended. These are live databases that system services hold open, macOS rebuilds them, and features that use personal context lose what they had learned. At this size it is not what is filling a disk. If you do not want this kind of on device learning, the switches are in System Settings, under Siri and Apple Intelligence.
Find what is left in one look
Free Mac measures IntelligencePlatform and the other protected Library folders that Terminal cannot read without Full Disk Access. Related: Apple Intelligence storage, Biome and DuetExpertCenter.
Related: the Trial folder and the Shortcuts folder in Library.
Common questions
What is the IntelligencePlatform folder on a Mac?
An on device store of knowledge about your apps, people and activity that personal suggestions and Apple Intelligence features use.
Can I delete IntelligencePlatform?
It is not recommended. The databases are in use, macOS rebuilds them, and personal features lose what they learned.
How big is the IntelligencePlatform folder?
108 MB on our Mac, mostly a 49 MB globalKnowledge database and 42 MB of Artifacts.