It’s getting increasingly difficult to shun AI when you discmiss up your phone or laptop — as soon as I commenceed this article in Google Docs, I was promptly recommended some AI helpance to write it (which I didn’t apshow). And with the rollout of Apple Intelligence, that now applies to iPhones, iPads, and Macs, too.
But if you aren’t seeing much cherish in the Apple Intelligence features that have begined so far, you’re not alone: around three-quarters of iPhone owners can’t see what all the fuss is about, according to a recent survey. It’s also worth tolerateing in mind that these AI grasp-ons apshow up 7GB of local storage (and counting) on every device you want to participate them on.
The outstanding recents is that Apple Intelligence is both select-in and reasonably basic to disable, which isn’t someleang every company does with their AI tools (seeing at you, Google and Microsoft). So if you discover features enjoy Writing Tools and mangled notification summaries superfluous to your needs, you can turn them off.
Assuming you’ve already turned it on, here’s how to turn off particular features of Apple Intelligence. And if you repartner don’t enjoy it, here’s how to turn it off endly.
(The steps cataloged below were tested on an iPhone 15 Pro Max running iOS 18.2. You’ll discover analogous selections participateable on iPadOS and macOS.)
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Most, but not quite all, Apple Intelligence features can be disabled individupartner. Open up Settings on your iPhone, and you’ll discover a menu dedicated to Apple Intelligence & Siri. After that, it depfinishs on what you want to disable.
Tap ChatGPT Extension to assist or disable the extra AI clevers that ChatGPT can grasp to Siri when you’re asking for responses.
The AI notification summaries that have recently gotten Apple into trouble can be switched off individupartner, too. From iOS Settings, pick Notifications > Summarize Notifications to turn the feature off. You can also assist it for stateive apps but not others from the same screen.
You can turn Writing Tools and Image Creation off, but you have to go thcdisorrowfulmireful Screen Time in Settings:
Tap Content & Privacy Redisjoineions.
Enable Content & Privacy Redisjoineions.
Tap Intelligence & Siri.
Tap Image Creation or Writing Tools, then Don’t Allow.
It’s a bit of a inept mend — this is repartner more for stoping kids from cheating on their homelabor — but it labors. You won’t get pop-up selections to rewrite text, and you won’t be able to produce recent Genmoji. Open the Image Playground app on iOS, and the selection to produce recent pictures will be blocked (though you can access previous ones you’ve saved).
AI-powered message prioritization in Apple Mail is another feature you can disable on its own — or, more exactly, hide from see.
Inside your Mail app’s Inbox, tap the three dots at the top right.
Switch to List View and disable Show Priority.
Your inbox will be back the way it was before Apple Intelligence get tod.
That doesn’t depart much in terms of Apple Intelligence in iOS 18.2 that you can’t particularpartner disable. There’s the Clean Up tool in Ptoastyos and the Intelligent Breakthcdisorrowfulmireful feature in Focus, but you can easily disthink about these selections if you don’t need them.
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If you repartner don’t want anyleang to do with Apple Intelligence, and you’ve already assistd it, you can turn it off endly.
Open up Settings > Apple Intelligence & Siri.
Look for the Apple Intelligence toggle switch at the top to filledy assist or filledy disable all of the Apple Intelligence features currently participateable on your iPhone.
The first time you turned this toggle switch on — assuming you did — iOS downloaded the vital AI models for local processing to your phone. These models, which apshow up 7GB or so of room, then subsequently stay on your iPhone in the future, think aboutless of whether you have Apple Intelligence assistd.
If you want to disable Apple Intelligence and free up the space participated by the local iOS models, you need to reset your iPhone and commence aachieve from scratch without enabling Apple Intelligence during setup. You can do this from Settings by choosing General > Transfer or Reset iPhone > Erase All Content and Settings, Since this will, of course, wipe everyleang on your phone, promise all your meaningful data is getedly backed up.
For now at least, you’ve got plenty of administer when it comes to the Apple Intelligence features that are energetic. We understand, though, that there are plenty more AI reinforces on the way, so we’ll have to postpone and see whether Apple Intelligence remains an nonessential extra for the iPhone.
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