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Turn Off Apple Intelligence on iPhone

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Apple's iOS 27 guide has no single Apple Intelligence switch, so you turn off features one by one. Go to Settings > Notifications > Summarize Notifications to stop notification summaries, turn off the summary switches for Messages and Mail in Settings > Apps, and in Settings > Siri turn off ChatGPT and, if you have Siri AI, switch to Siri Classic. On iOS 26, Settings > Apple Intelligence & Siri has one switch for everything.

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  1. Stop notification summaries
  2. Turn off Messages and Mail summaries
  3. Turn off Smart Replies and voicemail suggestions
  4. Turn off ChatGPT
  5. Switch Siri AI back to Siri Classic
  6. Limit Siri AI with Screen Time
  7. Stop sharing Siri recordings with Apple
  8. If it still does not work

Stop notification summaries

Go to Settings > Notifications > Summarize Notifications and turn off Summarize Notifications. To stop iPhone moving some alerts to the top, also turn off Settings > Notifications > Prioritize Notifications.

Turn off Messages and Mail summaries

Go to Settings > Apps > Messages and turn off Summarize Messages. Then go to Settings > Apps > Mail and turn off Summarize Message Previews.

Turn off Smart Replies and voicemail suggestions

In Settings > Apps > Mail, turn off Personalize Smart Replies. In Settings > Apps > Phone, turn off Suggestions in Voicemail.

Turn off ChatGPT

Go to Settings > Siri > ChatGPT and turn off Use ChatGPT. If you use Siri AI, go to Settings > Siri > Extensions > ChatGPT and turn off Use Extension.

Apple: turn ChatGPT on or off

Switch Siri AI back to Siri Classic

If you use Siri AI, go to Settings > Siri, scroll down, tap Turn Off Siri and tap Turn Off Siri again to confirm. Then tap Turn on Siri and choose Siri Classic, or leave Siri off.

Limit Siri AI with Screen Time

Go to Settings > Screen Time > Content & Privacy Restrictions and tap Siri (turn on Content & Privacy Restrictions first if it is off). Choose Siri (Classic Version) to allow Siri without AI, or keep Siri AI (Beta) and set Image Creation to Block. You can also choose Don't Allow Siri.

Stop sharing Siri recordings with Apple

Go to Settings > Privacy & Security > Analytics & Improvements and turn off Improve Siri & Apple Intelligence. Without Siri AI, the switch is called Improve Siri & Dictation.

iPhone Analytics & Improvements settings with the Improve Siri & Dictation switch turned off
iPhone Analytics & Improvements settings with the Improve Siri & Dictation switch turned off

If it does not work

  • On iOS 26, go to Settings > Apple Intelligence & Siri and turn off the Apple Intelligence switch to turn off its features at once.
  • If your iPhone does not offer Siri AI, it already uses Siri Classic and you can skip that step. Apple says Siri AI is not initially available in the EU, is not available in China mainland or for users under 13, and starts in English, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish.
  • Apple's iOS 27 guide does not list an off switch for Writing Tools, Image Playground or Clean Up in Photos.
  • Apple Intelligence comes with iOS 27 on supported iPhones and can use up to 14 GB of storage on iPhone Air and iPhone 17 Pro models and later, or up to 8 GB on other supported models. Apple's guide does not describe a way to remove it to free that space.
  • If Settings > Notifications has no Summarize Notifications option, Apple Intelligence may not be available for your iPhone model, language or region, and summaries are then not in use.
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