How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More (Consumer Reports)

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https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics/artificial-intelligence/turn-off-ai-tools-gemini-apple-intelligence-copilot-and-more-a1156421356/

For the first year or two after the launch of ChatGPT, it felt like AI was all you ever heard about. Today, it’s everywhere you look, too. Apple and Samsung have added AI to their phones. Meta introduced it on Facebook and Instagram. AI is all over Google, from Search to Gmail, and you can even find it in Microsoft Word (not to mention the Windows operating system).

For some people, these tools are a welcome addition. For others, they may feel intrusive. The tech industry is so eager for you to try AI that some features are impossible to avoid. But you can disable some of them if you want to and see others less often.

Follow this guide to turn off AI functions on Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Samsung platforms and devices. This won’t eradicate AI from your life entirely, but it’s a shortcut to reducing the overload.

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That's from October 3, and I don't follow Consumer Reports. I ran across that only because it was in the replies to two Bluesky posts from DU favorite Molly Jong-Fast this morning:

How do I block all the AI slop? Also so far ai so just made my life 1000000 times more annoying.

— Molly Jong-Fast (@mollyjongfast.bsky.social) 2025-10-12T12:18:25.161Z

If it didn’t happen, I don’t want to see it.

— Molly Jong-Fast (@mollyjongfast.bsky.social) 2025-10-12T14:33:57.363Z

The replies she got are worth reading.