You can manually disable certain Apple Intelligence features, heres how
Apple Intelligences ever-growing feature set has brought additional storage requirements on your device, but its also come with new controls over which features are enabled. Heres how to manually disable certain Apple Intelligence features on your iPhone and more.Screen Time includes method to disable three types of Apple Intelligence featuresApple Intelligence is mostly an all-or-nothing feature set.When you enable AI from your iPhones Settings app, or as part of an iOS setup walkthrough, youre activating nearly the entire Apple Intelligence feature set.But theres also a way to selectively scale back.Inside Screen Time, Apple has built in options to disable or enable three different categories of Apple Intelligence:Image CreationWriting Tools ChatGPT ExtensionThe first category applies to Image Playground, Genmoji, and Image Wand. Theres no way to turn off just one of these features, but you can disable all of them with a single control.Writing Tools refers to the AI tools to compose, proofread, or rewrite or reformat your text.And ChatGPT is self-explanatory. Though its perhaps an odd addition, since theres already a separate ChatGPT toggle inside Apple Intelligences own Settings menu.How to disable certain Apple Intelligence featuresTo find the above options inside Screen Time, here are the steps youll need to follow.Open the Settings appGo to the Screen Time menuOpen Content & Privacy RestrictionsMake sure that the green toggle at the top is onThen open Intelligence & Siri to find the AI controlsAfter youve disabled a given feature, youll notice that even UI elements referencing it will disappear.For example, disabling Image Creation will remove the glowing Genmoji icon from the emoji keyboard. And disabling Writing Tools will remove the icon from Notes toolbar, and the copy/paste menu.Note: in my testing, it usually takes a little time or an app force-quit before the relevant AI interface elements actually disappear.Do you plan to disable any Apple Intelligence features? Let us know in the comments.Best iPhone accessoriesAdd 9to5Mac to your Google News feed. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More.Youre reading 9to5Mac experts who break news about Apple and its surrounding ecosystem, day after day. Be sure to check out our homepage for all the latest news, and follow 9to5Mac on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to stay in the loop. Dont know where to start? Check out our exclusive stories, reviews, how-tos, and subscribe to our YouTube channel