How to manually disable Apple Intelligence features?

If you are an Apple user and need a guide to help you manually turn off certain Intelligence features, you are at the right place. Since they require an additional storage, some of them can be turned off or disabled as per your requirements. We will discuss the steps to do the same, as well as the features that can be disabled like this. Let us begin.

What does manually disabling Apple Intelligence features do?

Manually disabling features means, that your system is not disabling any feature on it is own. But it is you, who is choosing to disable a particular feature, or more than one feature on the device. The reasons for doing the same may vary. When you manually disable some Apple Intelligence features, you are stopping them from functioning. Now, when you need those features again, you will have to manually enable them as well.

How do you manually disable Apple Intelligence features?

It is simple to disable Apple Intelligence features on your Apple device. You do not even require a third-party application or a website. Follow the steps to know how you can do it yourself –

• Go to the Settings app and open it.
• Open the Screen Time menu.
• Now open Content and Privacy Restrictions.
• Move the toggle that appears next on the top.
• As the next step, open Intelligence and Siri in order to find the AI controls.

Once you have disabled it, the UI elements will stop appearing. 

You can find all these options in Screen time. From here, you can disable the Intelligence features that you want to. They will not hamper the functioning of the device in any way. Only the function that you disable will work no more, until enabled again. 

What features can I disable using the Screen time on Apple?

There are a handful of features that you can disable while being an Apple user, simply through Screen time. These are the ones –

• ChatGPT Extension – This is the AI support to your device to solve your queries and assist you better. 
• Writing Tools – These are the AI tools that are used in writing, proofreading, composing and even reformatting. Any writing-related work is the job of writing tools.
• Image Creation – Turning off this Intelligence feature will impact the Genmojis, the Image Playground and the Image wand. No separate feature is required to turn them all separately. You can simply do it in one go and have it sorted. 

These are largely the Apple Intelligence features that one can disable using the Screen time on an Apple device. You can choose to disable one or more than one feature, however you want it done. Disabling is not even permanent. You can enable them again when need be. 

This is how you can simply use the device’s settings to access these features as well as disable them. Disabling may even free up some space on the device, making the functioning a little smoother. If you want to do it too, you can try it out.