diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-apple.yml b/.github/workflows/build-apple.yml
index 75add9993..289e5144e 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build-apple.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-apple.yml
@@ -60,7 +60,6 @@ jobs:
             -DCMAKE_BUILD_RPATH="@loader_path" \
             -DLLAMA_FATAL_WARNINGS=ON \
             -DLLAMA_BUILD_BORINGSSL=ON \
-            -DGGML_METAL_USE_BF16=ON \
             -DGGML_METAL_EMBED_LIBRARY=OFF \
             -DGGML_METAL_SHADER_DEBUG=ON \
             -DGGML_RPC=ON \
@@ -127,7 +126,6 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           sysctl -a
           cmake -B build -G Xcode \
-            -DGGML_METAL_USE_BF16=ON \
             -DGGML_METAL_EMBED_LIBRARY=ON \
             -DLLAMA_OPENSSL=OFF \
             -DLLAMA_BUILD_APP=OFF \
@@ -178,7 +176,6 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           sysctl -a
           cmake -B build -G Xcode \
-            -DGGML_METAL_USE_BF16=ON \
             -DGGML_METAL_EMBED_LIBRARY=ON \
             -DLLAMA_BUILD_COMMON=OFF \
             -DLLAMA_BUILD_APP=OFF \
@@ -212,7 +209,6 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           sysctl -a
           cmake -B build -G Xcode \
-            -DGGML_METAL_USE_BF16=ON \
             -DGGML_METAL_EMBED_LIBRARY=ON \
             -DLLAMA_BUILD_COMMON=OFF \
             -DLLAMA_BUILD_APP=OFF \
@@ -257,7 +253,6 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           sysctl -a
           cmake -B build -G Xcode \
-            -DGGML_METAL_USE_BF16=ON \
             -DGGML_METAL_EMBED_LIBRARY=ON \
             -DLLAMA_OPENSSL=OFF \
             -DLLAMA_BUILD_APP=OFF \
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 7a69caaef..f587ed93c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -93,13 +93,13 @@ jobs:
           - build: 'arm64'
             arch: 'arm64'
             os: macos-26
-            defines: "-DGGML_METAL_USE_BF16=ON -DGGML_METAL_EMBED_LIBRARY=ON -DCMAKE_OSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=13.3"
+            defines: "-DGGML_METAL_EMBED_LIBRARY=ON -DCMAKE_OSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=13.3"
           # TODO: this build is disabled to save Github Actions resources (https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/23780)
           #       in order to enable it again, we have to provision dedicated runners  to run it
           #- build: 'arm64-kleidiai'
           #  arch: 'arm64'
           #  os: macos-14
-          #  defines: "-DGGML_METAL_USE_BF16=ON -DGGML_METAL_EMBED_LIBRARY=ON -DCMAKE_OSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=13.3 -DGGML_CPU_KLEIDIAI=ON"
+          #  defines: "-DGGML_METAL_EMBED_LIBRARY=ON -DCMAKE_OSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=13.3 -DGGML_CPU_KLEIDIAI=ON"
           - build: 'x64'
             arch: 'x64'
             os: macos-15-intel
@@ -1402,7 +1402,6 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           sysctl -a
           cmake -B build -G Xcode \
-            -DGGML_METAL_USE_BF16=ON \
             -DGGML_METAL_EMBED_LIBRARY=ON \
             -DLLAMA_OPENSSL=OFF \
             -DLLAMA_BUILD_APP=OFF \
diff --git a/build-xcframework.sh b/build-xcframework.sh
index 697278d05..2119d3b87 100755
--- a/build-xcframework.sh
+++ b/build-xcframework.sh
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ LLAMA_BUILD_MTMD=ON
 GGML_METAL=ON
 GGML_METAL_EMBED_LIBRARY=ON
 GGML_BLAS_DEFAULT=ON
-GGML_METAL_USE_BF16=ON
 GGML_OPENMP=OFF
 
 COMMON_C_FLAGS="-Wno-macro-redefined -Wno-shorten-64-to-32 -Wno-unused-command-line-argument -g"
@@ -44,7 +43,6 @@ COMMON_CMAKE_ARGS=(
     -DGGML_METAL_EMBED_LIBRARY=${GGML_METAL_EMBED_LIBRARY}
     -DGGML_BLAS_DEFAULT=${GGML_BLAS_DEFAULT}
     -DGGML_METAL=${GGML_METAL}
-    -DGGML_METAL_USE_BF16=${GGML_METAL_USE_BF16}
     -DGGML_NATIVE=OFF
     -DGGML_OPENMP=${GGML_OPENMP}
 )