Turn Off Apple Intelligence on iPhone

Apple Intelligence: How to Turn Off Individual Features and Disable it Completely

Introduction

It’s getting increasingly difficult to avoid AI when you open up your phone or laptop. With the rollout of Apple Intelligence, AI assistance is now available on iPhones, iPads, and Macs. However, if you’re not seeing much value in the Apple Intelligence features that have launched so far, you’re not alone.

Turning Off Individual Apple Intelligence Features

Most, but not quite all, Apple Intelligence features can be disabled individually.

Turning Off Summaries for Individual Apps

• Open up Settings on your iPhone and find the menu dedicated to Apple Intelligence & Siri.
• Tap ChatGPT Extension to enable or disable the extra AI smarts that ChatGPT can add to Siri when you’re asking for responses.
• Notifications: Switch off individual AI notification summaries or enable them for certain apps but not others from the same screen.

Turning Off Writing Tools and Image Creation

• Open Settings and choose Screen Time.
• Enable Content & Privacy Restrictions.
• Tap Intelligence & Siri.
• Tap Image Creation or Writing Tools, then Don’t Allow.

Turning Off Message Prioritization

• Inside your Mail app’s Inbox, tap the three dots at the top right.
• Switch to List View and disable Show Priority.

Turning Off Apple Intelligence Completely

• Open up Settings & Apple Intelligence & Siri.
• Look for the Apple Intelligence toggle switch at the top to fully enable or fully disable all of the Apple Intelligence features currently available on your iPhone.

Conclusion

If you’re not seeing much value in the Apple Intelligence features, you can easily disable them or turn them off completely. Keep in mind that disabling Apple Intelligence won’t remove the AI models from your phone, and you’ll need to reset your iPhone and start again from scratch without enabling Apple Intelligence during setup if you want to free up the space used by the local iOS models.

FAQs

Q: How do I disable Apple Intelligence features?
A: You can disable individual features, such as Writing Tools and Image Creation, by going to Screen Time and enabling Content & Privacy Restrictions. You can also disable Apple Intelligence completely by going to Settings & Apple Intelligence & Siri.

Q: How do I turn off AI notification summaries?
A: You can switch off individual AI notification summaries or enable them for certain apps but not others from the same screen.

Q: Can I disable Apple Intelligence completely?
A: Yes, you can disable Apple Intelligence completely by going to Settings & Apple Intelligence & Siri and flipping the toggle switch.

Q: Will disabling Apple Intelligence remove the AI models from my phone?
A: No, disabling Apple Intelligence won’t remove the AI models from your phone. If you want to free up the space used by the local iOS models, you’ll need to reset your iPhone and start again from scratch without enabling Apple Intelligence during setup.