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How to turn off Apple Intelligence on your iPhone


Make your iPhone un-Intelligent.

The good news is that Apple Intelligence is both opt-in and reasonably easy to disable, which isn’t something every company does with their AI tools (looking at you, Google and Microsoft). Open the Image Playground app on iOS, and the option to create new pictures will be blocked (though you can access previous ones you’ve saved). The first time you turned this toggle switch on — assuming you did — iOS downloaded the necessary AI models for local processing to your phone.

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