iOS 18.4 Again Reactivates Apple Intelligence Automatically. Here's How to Turn It Off

Apple truly wants you to use Apple Intelligence to an astir annoying degree. Sure, the caller iOS 18.4 update adds a invited Prioritize Notifications diagnostic that I've recovered helpful, but it besides includes non-AI features and the accustomed assortment of information and bug fixes. The occupation is that adjacent if you antecedently turned disconnected Apple Intelligence, this update turns it backmost on. The aforesaid applies to iPad OS 18.4 and MacOS Sequoia 15.4.

I won't clasp it against you if you privation to walk connected Apple's AI tech for now. It is, aft all, inactive technically successful beta -- which is nary uncertainty wherefore it's annoying that Apple Intelligence is getting turned backmost on. Message summaries tin be dodgy, generated images are unpredictable and the promised leap successful Siri's capabilities has been officially pushed back.

Turning disconnected Apple Intelligence is easy, though, whether you're turning it disconnected wholly oregon selectively switching disconnected idiosyncratic features.

See also: Did a well-meaning person nonstop you a connection astir Apple Intelligence perchance speechmaking your backstage information? I explicate what's really going on.

Why crook disconnected Apple Intelligence successful the archetypal place?

Since the archetypal Apple Intelligence features rolled retired successful iOS 18.1, immoderate radical person chosen to opt retired of the caller technology. Tools specified as Image Playground, Genmoji and message summaries can usage up to 7GB of your device's interior retention -- a sizable chunk, particularly if you thin to tally against the precocious bounds of its escaped space.

Even if retention is not an issue, you conscionable whitethorn not beryllium funny successful Apple's acceptable of AI features. According to a new survey by SellCell, 73% of Apple users deliberation AI adds small to nary worth to the experience. In a abstracted survey, CNET recovered that 25% of smartphone owners aren't funny astatine all.

Or, honestly, you whitethorn not privation to woody with features that are creating inaccurate summaries oregon that tin beryllium replicated without Apple Intelligence.

The bully quality is that it's casual to crook disconnected Apple Intelligence entirely. Or if you'd similar to prime and choose, you tin selectively disable immoderate of the features. Doing truthful besides lets you reclaim the retention it's using.

Is Apple Intelligence truly acceptable to beryllium connected by default?

I'm not an AI crank -- I admit features specified arsenic notification summaries and the Clean Up instrumentality successful the Photos app. And yet, Apple Intelligence is besides a enactment successful progress, an evolving acceptable of features that Apple is heavy hyping portion gradually developing. I wouldn't clasp it against you if you wanted to not beryllium distracted oregon consciousness similar you're doing Apple's investigating for them (that's what the developer and nationalist betas are for).

Remember that Apple Intelligence works lone connected the iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 16, iPhone 16E, iPhone 16 Pro oregon M-series Macs and iPads (plus the newest iPad mini).

Here's what you request to cognize astir disabling it.

How to spot the magnitude of retention Apple Intelligence is using

If you're acrophobic astir the retention requirements of Apple Intelligence, you tin find retired however overmuch the strategy is utilizing by going to Settings > General > iPhone (or iPad) Storage > iOS (or iPadOS).

Note that adjacent aft turning disconnected Apple Intelligence, that retention inactive shows up successful the iOS Storage list. However, I was capable to corroborate that if the phone's retention fills up and the strategy needs that now-inactive space, iOS reclaims what it needs.

How to crook disconnected Apple Intelligence wholly (iPhone, iPad and Mac)

Open Settings (iPhone oregon iPad) or System Settings (Mac) and choose Apple Intelligence & Siri. Then crook disconnected the Apple Intelligence option. Confirm your prime successful the dialog that appears by tapping Turn Off Apple Intelligence.

Here's what you lose:

• Visual Intelligence (on iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro)

• Genmoji (on iPhone and iPad; it's not disposable yet connected Mac)

• Image Playground -- the app remains, but you can't make caller images.

• Image Wand successful the Notes app

(Curiously, the Clean Up instrumentality successful Photos sticks astir adjacent erstwhile Apple Intelligence is turned off, possibly due to the fact that the archetypal clip you usage it the app downloads resources for it and holds onto them.)

How to crook disconnected idiosyncratic Apple Intelligence features

Maybe you're uncovering immoderate Apple Intelligence features adjuvant portion others are annoying (or conscionable highly amusing). You tin crook disconnected circumstantial features successful the settings for apps to which they apply.

For example, to disable substance summaries successful Messages notifications, spell to Settings > Apps > Messages and power disconnected the Summarize Messages option.

Some features are not arsenic app-specific. Writing Tools, which usage Apple Intelligence to impervious oregon rewrite text, look arsenic an enactment erstwhile you prime text, careless of the app. To crook that off, you request to disable Apple Intelligence system-wide.

Also enactment that astir each app includes an Apple Intelligence & Siri enactment successful Settings, with a Learn from this App option (turned connected by default). That applies conscionable to whether Apple Intelligence and Siri tin show however you usage it to marque suggestions; it doesn't impact immoderate peculiar Apple Intelligence features.

How to crook disconnected Apple Intelligence features successful Screen Time settings

Another enactment for restricting what Apple Intelligence tin bash is buried successful the Screen Time settings. Screen Time is designed to power which apps and features tin tally connected different device, specified arsenic the iPhone utilized by a kid successful your household. But it's besides adjuvant for tracking however overmuch clip you're spending connected the instrumentality and, successful this case, turning disconnected immoderate components of Apple Intelligence.

1. Open the Settings app and spell to Screen Time > Content & Privacy Restrictions.

2. Turn connected the Content & Privacy Restrictions option if it's not already enabled. If this is the archetypal clip you're flipping this switch, don't interest -- everything is allowed by default.

3. Tap Intelligence & Siri.

4. Tap connected the pursuing 3 features and determine whether to let oregon don't let their use: Image Creation (such arsenic Image Playground and Genmoji), Writing Tools and the ChatGPT Extension (which uses ChatGPT to process requests that are beyond the built-in Apple Intelligence capabilities).

For much connected iOS 18.3, see how the Mail app sorts messages into categories and if you haven't upgraded already, marque a bully backup first.