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Turn off Apple Intelligence iOS 27

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theappleloverguy

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Those who are running iOS 27 developer beta, is there anyway to delete Apple Intelligence? It seems baked into the software and I don't see myself using AI features at all, and plus, it looks like it's taking quite a chunk of my space.

I tried turning Siri off, but it looks like it is already turned off. I might just downgrade to 26 and keep it there, if Apple is truly shoving this down our throats.

Any suggestions would be appreciated and helpful
 
DblHelix said:
Then maybe a smart phone isn’t for you
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What a bad take. Most Apple Intelligence features are outclassed by third-party AI tools. The main exception is agentic functionality, and that’s largely because Apple restricts what third-party apps can do on the device. Wanting to disable a feature you don’t use is perfectly reasonable.

If anything, Apple Intelligence is aimed at mainstream users who aren’t already using dedicated AI tools. Personally, I'm curious to try the new Siri/ Apple Intelligence, but I doubt I'll use it much. Outside of basic chatbot use, I do most AI-related tasks on my computer.
 
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August11 said:
What a bad take. Most Apple Intelligence features are outclassed by third-party AI tools. The main exception is agentic functionality, and that’s largely because Apple restricts what third-party apps can do on the device. Wanting to disable a feature you don’t use is perfectly reasonable.

If anything, Apple Intelligence is aimed at mainstream users who aren’t already using dedicated AI tools. Personally, I'm curious to try the new Siri/ Apple Intelligence, but I doubt I'll use it much. Outside of basic chatbot use, I do most AI-related tasks on my computer.
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I do too. I’m testing the new Siri and it is not smart enough yet. On my phone I have perplexity pro, claude, and chat gpt I use. If it doesn’t improve in considering Samsung this time.
 
DblHelix said:
I do too. I’m testing the new Siri and it is not smart enough yet. On my phone I have perplexity pro, claude, and chat gpt I use. If it doesn’t improve in considering Samsung this time.
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why would moving to samsung change things? siri al is basically better than what samsung has with gemini, it has better on screen awareness, siri answers tends to be as good as gemini if not better and photo editing also is better on ios 27.

why not just keep using 3rd party al apps if that works for you. don't see why moving to samsung makes sense unless you are just bored with using the same OS
 
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The Game 161 said:
why would moving to samsung change things? siri al is basically better than what samsung has with gemini, it has better on screen awareness, siri answers tends to be as good as gemini if not better and photo editing also is better on ios 27.

why not just keep using 3rd party al apps if that works for you. don't see why moving to samsung makes sense unless you are just bored with using the same OS
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everyone is saying siri is good, but mine has been kinda bad? i asked it to help me track calories (essentially to just do basic addition) and it couldn't even comprehend the query.
 
Personally, I don’t want to turn off everything.

I’d like options to turn it off in selected apps.
Give me the option to limit requests to what can be processed on-device.

I’ve seen screenshots of Messages where Siri will suggest to add things to Calendar or the Grocery List, but it looked really cluttered to me.

Similarly, the Photos metadata screen shows buttons prominently for Siri and image searches on TikTok and Google that I’ll never use.

Everyone has different parts they want or don’t want.
Let us choose and customize.
 
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Don't know why people find it so hard to comprehend that Apple isn't making you use the AI features. Just because the feature exists doesn't mean you have to use it nor does it mean you have to choose between it or using your ChatGPT or Gemini or whatever app if you like that better.

Siri AI is not an infringement on your privacy so I see arguments to be able to disable it and remove it akin to wanting to be able to turn off and remove the drop down or some other random OS feature that you will or will not use.

This is all just being driven by the irrational hysteria some people have over anything with the letters A I.
 
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iammike1 said:
Don't know why people find it so hard to comprehend that Apple isn't making you use the AI features. Just because the feature exists doesn't mean you have to use it nor does it mean you have to choose between it or using your ChatGPT or Gemini or whatever app if you like that better.

Siri AI is not an infringement on your privacy so I see arguments to be able to disable it and remove it akin to wanting to be able to turn off and remove the drop down or some other random OS feature that you will or will not use.

This is all just being driven by the irrational hysteria some people have over anything with the letters A I.
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It takes up too much space.
 
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AssassuN said:
It takes up too much space.
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It does not. This isn't 2010. A few GBs is nothing. Again, why do you not raise the same amount of stink about the hundreds of other features baked into any Operating System that you can't just turn off and delete? People just get off on the Anti-AI karma these days and it is exhausting and most people don't even know what they are talking about or that they use AI every day even if they don't specifically use a chatbot.
 
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iammike1 said:
Siri AI is not an infringement on your privacy so I see arguments to be able to disable it and remove it akin to wanting to be able to turn off and remove the drop down or some other random OS feature that you will or will not use.
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There is already a Settings option to disable “Summarize Message Previews” in Mail.
Messages has an option to disable “Summarize Messages”
There is an option to disable Siri requests from going to ChatGPT.
The Image Playground app can be deleted.
The Camera Control button can be configured not to bring up Visual Intelligence.
 
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iammike1 said:
Don't know why people find it so hard to comprehend that Apple isn't making you use the AI features. Just because the feature exists doesn't mean you have to use it nor does it mean you have to choose between it or using your ChatGPT or Gemini or whatever app if you like that better.

Siri AI is not an infringement on your privacy so I see arguments to be able to disable it and remove it akin to wanting to be able to turn off and remove the drop down or some other random OS feature that you will or will not use.

This is all just being driven by the irrational hysteria some people have over anything with the letters A I.
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I have turned it off on my Mac and plan to do it when I have to upgrade to Golden Gate as well. I would like to force myself to think.
 
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iammike1 said:
It does not. This isn't 2010. A few GBs is nothing. Again, why do you not raise the same amount of stink about the hundreds of other features baked into any Operating System that you can't just turn off and delete? People just get off on the Anti-AI karma these days and it is exhausting and most people don't even know what they are talking about or that they use AI every day even if they don't specifically use a chatbot.
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it does indeed.
my ipad has 64gb storage, and i had about 20 free before the update, now i have 2 lol.
 
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iammike1 said:
It does not. This isn't 2010. A few GBs is nothing. Again, why do you not raise the same amount of stink about the hundreds of other features baked into any Operating System that you can't just turn off and delete? People just get off on the Anti-AI karma these days and it is exhausting and most people don't even know what they are talking about or that they use AI every day even if they don't specifically use a chatbot.
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Apple doesn't give me free gigabytes; they charge high prices for them, so I don't want them deciding how I spend my storage space on something I might not even want. Apple Intelligence should always be able to be disabled, and each user should be able to decide if it's worth spending 20GB on Apple Intelligence features or on anything else they deem appropriate.
 
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I have it disabled on 26 but I can’t get my 7.2gig of space back.
If I disable that then the space should become available to me.
 
I'm baffled that people are defending that you can't disable Apple Intelligence and delete the local model from your device. I mean, it is your device. It should be your decision to use or not to use AI on that device. And I can't really see a usecase anyway. In another thread someone posted how they used Siri AI to add something to their calendar and felt like, it would have been faster if they did it manually. And so I see it with most Apple Intelligence features Apple presented for iOS 26 and 27.

What would be very weird if iOS 27 would download the model onto my iPhone even though my iPhone does not support Apple Intelligence.
 
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AssassuN said:
it does indeed.
my ipad has 64gb storage, and i had about 20 free before the update, now i have 2 lol.
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The local model is not taking up 18GB. Literally far too big to load into memory or run at any reasonable speed. Your problem is not Siri AI, it is something else.
 
tehabe said:
I'm baffled that people are defending that you can't disable Apple Intelligence and delete the local model from your device. I mean, it is your device. It should be your decision to use or not to use AI on that device. And I can't really see a usecase anyway. In another thread someone posted how they used Siri AI to add something to their calendar and felt like, it would have been faster if they did it manually. And so I see it with most Apple Intelligence features Apple presented for iOS 26 and 27.

What would be very weird if iOS 27 would download the model onto my iPhone even though my iPhone does not support Apple Intelligence.
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Operating systems are full of thousands of features you never use but can't disable because they are baked in. The only OS offering anything even reasonably close to what you supposedly want is Linux yet here you are, in Apple's ecosystem, forever known to be one of the most curated environments crying because the experience is curated.

Basically, you want to reap all the benefits of a pre-curated ecosystem while still believing everything should be curated just specifically for your preferences. It's entitlement and it's out of control in the modern world.
 
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