How to Turn Off Apple Intelligence on Your iPhone

It's becoming harder to avoid AI when you open your phone or laptop – as soon as I started this article in Google Docs, I was immediately offered some AI assistance to write it (which I didn't take). and together Rollout of Apple IntelligenceWhich now also applies to iPhones, iPads and Macs.

But if you're not seeing much value in the Apple Intelligence features launched so far, you're not alone: ​​Nearly three-quarters of iPhone owners can't see what all the fuss is about, According to a recent surveyIt's also worth keeping in mind that these are AI add-ons Take 7GB of local storage (and counting) on ​​every device you want to use them on.

The good news is that Apple Intelligence is opt-in and fairly easy to disable, which not every company does with their AI tools (looking at you, Google and Microsoft). So if you get such facilities writing instrument And Tangled Notification Summary More than you need, you can turn them off.

Assuming you've already turned it on, here's how to turn off specific features of Apple Intelligence. And if you really don't like it, here's how to turn it off completely.

(The steps listed below were tested on an iPhone 15 Pro Max running iOS 18.2. You'll find the same options available on iPadOS and macOS.)

Most, but not all, Apple Intelligence features can be disabled individually. opening up settings on your iPhone, and you'll find a menu dedicated to Apple Intelligence and SiriAfter that, it depends on what you want to disable.

Tap chatgpt extension To enable or disable additional AI smarts That ChatGPT can add to Siri When you're asking for reactions.

AI notification summary that has come recently Got Apple in trouble Can also be closed individually. From iOS Settings, select Notifications , Summarize Notifications To turn off the feature. You can also enable it for some apps, but not others from the same screen.

You can turn off the writing tools and image creation, but you have to screen time In Settings:

• Tap Content and Privacy Restrictions,
• Able Content and Privacy Restrictions,
• Tap Intelligence and Siri,
• Tap image creation Or writing instrumentThen do not allow,

It's a bit of an odd solution – it's really more to prevent kids from cheating on their homework – but it works. You won't get pop-up options to rewrite text, and you won't be able to create a new Genmoji. Open the Image Playground app on iOS, and the option to create new photos will be blocked (though you can access previous photos you've saved).

AI-powered message prioritization in Apple Mail is another feature you can disable yourself — or, more accurately, hide from view.

• inside your mail app inboxTap the three dots at the top right.
• switch on list View and disable show priority,

Your inbox will return to the way it was before Apple Intelligence was introduced.

This doesn't leave much in terms of Apple Intelligence in iOS 18.2 that you can't specifically disable. Photos has a clean up tool and an Intelligent Breakthrough feature in Focus, but you can easily ignore these options if you don't need them.

If you really don't want anything to do with Apple Intelligence, and you've already enabled it, you can turn it off completely.

• opening up settings , Apple Intelligence and Siri,
• See the Apple Intelligence toggle switch at the top to completely enable or disable all Apple Intelligence features currently available on your iPhone.

The first time you turned on this toggle switch — assuming you did — iOS downloaded the necessary AI models for local processing onto your phone. These models, which take up 7GB or more of space, remain on your iPhone later in the future, even if you have Apple Intelligence enabled.

If you want to disable Apple Intelligence And To free up space used by the local iOS model, you'll need to reset your iPhone and start again from scratch without enabling Apple Intelligence during setup. You can do this from Settings by selecting General > Transfer or Reset iPhone > Erase All Content and SettingsSince this will, of course, erase everything on your phone, make sure all your important data is safely backed up,

At least for now, you've got a lot of control when it comes to which Apple Intelligence features are activated. However, we know that there are There are plenty more AI upgrades on the waySo we'll have to wait and see if Apple Intelligence will remain an optional extra for the iPhone.