How to turn off Apple Intelligence on iPhone

After the initial excitement about using Apple Intelligence died down, many people couldn't get past the frustration and inconsistency of many of its features. Ultimately, many people decided to use their iPhones without Apple Intelligence.

It doesn't add much value to the iPhone experience.

Before we get started, it’s worth noting that Apple Intelligence includes some interesting features. These include an enhanced Focus mode that intelligently filters out alerts and a Clean Up tool that lets you remove distracting elements from photos.

But overall, the current crop of AI features on phones doesn’t excite people or add any value to their daily activities or routines. Take Notification Summary, for example, which can provide summaries of emails and other alerts. If you get a lot of long emails, you can see how this could be useful. But in my experience, it often misses important details.

This means you have to open the email and read it, which defeats the purpose of the feature to summarize communications in the first place. And that’s not even mentioning that Apple had to disable notification summaries for certain types of content because they kept giving the wrong information.

Smart Reply has suffered from a similar problem. During testing, users were constantly having to tweak suggested responses, which meant they weren’t saving time. At this point, these features don’t improve workflow enough to warrant long-term use.

Everything is still a work in progress

It’s not unusual for new software features to be released in waves, so you certainly can’t expect to have access to every Apple Intelligence feature right away. But the ones that are available now seem a bit half-baked.

The new and improved Siri , despite all the hype, is only marginally better. Smart Reply strips all the personality out of your supposed “replies,” leaving you wondering why you didn’t just compose your own. At this point, it’s clear that Apple will need some time to perfect these features. It’s best to keep Apple Intelligence turned off until after the next few updates. In the meantime, there are other apps you can use to get Apple Intelligence features on your phone.

Using Apple Intelligence features causes device to overheat

This isn’t an issue that everyone using Apple’s AI will encounter, but many people have found their phones getting a little hotter than usual when using features like Genmoji and Image Playground, which seem to require more processing power than other AI features.

There are many reasons and ways to fix your iPhone getting hot . In case you have a fairly new device and the overheating only occurs when using specific Apple Intelligence features, it may make more sense to turn it off completely.

How to turn off Apple Intelligence on iPhone

If you want to turn off Apple Intelligence, here's what to do:

1. Navigate to the Settings app.
2. Scroll until you see Apple Intelligence & Siri and select that item.
3. Turn off the switch next to Apple Intelligence .

If you don't want to turn off Apple Intelligence completely, you can also turn it off for specific apps. From the same Apple Intelligence & Siri menu :

1. Scroll down and select Apps .
2. Select any app from the list, tap on it and turn off Learn from this App .
3. Repeat with more applications if needed.

For more control, go to Settings > Screen Time > Content & Privacy Restrictions . Turn on the toggle at the top, then tap Intelligence & Siri and you can turn off individual Apple Intelligence features.

It’s a stretch to say that AI features like those accessible through Apple Intelligence are a waste of time. While they can be incredibly useful, many people won’t turn them back on any time soon.