How to disable or avoid intrusive AI

Aug 17, 2026 09:07 PM - 1 day ago 1

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One of the biggest questions I get astatine Drop-In Time astatine the room (besides “what is taking up each my unreality storage?”) is really to disable aliases debar intrusive AI that shows up wherever group don’t want it. This is simply a guideline for group who would for illustration little intrusive AI successful their tech environment. Maybe you for illustration AI and find it useful? That’s fine, this archive is astir apt not for you. Additions/edits welcome. Leave a remark aliases driblet maine an email. This page is disposable astatine the short URL https://NoToAI.org

Adobe Acrobat

Windows: Menu > Preferences > Generative AI
macOS: View > Preferences > Generative AI

Uncheck the checkbox connected the page, click Save.

Adobe Reader

Choose Disable caller Acrobat Reader from the apical paper (upper left), o.k. the dialog container and restart.

Android/Gemini

Depending connected your phone’s manufacturer, you whitethorn beryllium capable to uninstall the Gemini app entirely. If not, location are immoderate application-specific ways you tin move disconnected immoderate of its features

Messages

Tap your account picture, prime Messages settings, past Gemini successful Messages, and toggle the adjunct off.

Other features successful different apps

Tap your floor plan icon, prime Gemini Apps activity, and past take Turn off aliases Turn disconnected and delete activity. Next, pat the floor plan icon again and spell to the Connected Apps mounting (check the Personal Intelligence setting). Disable each the apps wherever you don’t want Gemini.

Power Button

If Gemini has “taken over” your powerfulness button, you tin move this off. Go to Settings, past System, past Gestures and alteration the settings nether Press & Hold Power Button

If that doesn’t activity you tin effort opening Settings, past searching for Power key

Apple Intelligence & Siri

Only exists connected iPhone 16 and newer Macs and iPads Open Settings (iPhone aliases iPad) aliases System Settings (Mac) and choose Apple Intelligence & Siri. Then move disconnected the Apple Intelligence option. Confirm your prime successful the dialog that appears by tapping Turn Off Apple Intelligence. More specifications connected really to move disconnected circumstantial parts of Apple Intelligence and time off others alone.

Apple has a “learn from this application” characteristic which tin beryllium connected moreover erstwhile Apple Intelligence is not on. To move it off

For Mac: spell to System Settings – Apple Intelligence & Siri. Select About Siri, Dictation & Privacy… adjacent the extremity of the page, move disconnected apps you don’t want Siri to study from
For iOS: Settings – Apple Intelligence & Siri, scroll down to Apps, disable “Learn from this App”

Browser-embedded AI

Chrome/AI Nano

Type chrome://flags into the reside barroom and deed Enter. You’ll spot a database of strategy flags and a hunt bar; look for GLIC [Google unrecorded successful Chrome]. This will select the monolithic database down to astir a twelve AI features. The 2nd hunt word you’ll request successful this model is “Gemini” group them each to “disabled.” Don’t accidentally alteration the mates of settings which default to disabled.

Edge

Similar to Chrome: type edge://flags into the Edge reside bar, deed Enter, past type “AI” aliases “Copilot” into the hunt box.

Click Appearance successful the left-hand Settings sidebar, and scroll down to Copilot and sidebar

Turn the sidebar off, and move disconnected the “Personalize my apical sites successful customize sidebar” and “Allow sidebar apps to show notifications” toggles.

Click Copilot under App circumstantial settings. Turn disconnected “Show Copilot fastener connected the toolbar.” Then, backmost successful the Copilot and sidebar settings, move disconnected the “Show sidebar button” toggle that has conscionable appeared.

Click Languages successful the left-hand navigation. Disable “Use Copilot for penning connected the web.”

Firefox

The latest Firefox (148 and later) has a characteristic to artifact each AI enhancements. So update, if you can, spell to Settings and look for AI Controls. Turn Block AI Enhancements connected (or prime much granularly from the list)

Using Firefox, this hold removes a batch of the AI junk if you usage Google arsenic your default hunt engine.

- - - More specifications connected removing AI slop from hunt results successful different browsers.
    - Here is simply a nexus for really to do this successful DuckDuckGo and Bing.
    - TenBlueLinks gives you immoderate elemental steps to do this successful Chrome/Firefox

DuckDuckGo

DDG is some a browser and a hunt engine. They person a no-AI type you tin get to by going to https://noai.duckduckgo.com/ You tin besides alteration your default hunt motor to this and extremity utilizing Google, here are steps for each browser. If you want to spell each retired and get the DDG browser, they besides person instructions connected really to do that.

Google Workspace (Gmail, Google Docs &c)

In Gmail, click the Settings (gear) icon, and past prime See each settings. On the General tab, scroll down to Google Workspace smart features. Click Manage Workspace smart characteristic settings and toggle disconnected 2 options: Smart features successful Google Workspace and Smart features successful different Google products. Uncheck the container adjacent to Turn connected smart features successful Gmail, Chat, and Meet connected the aforesaid tab.

In Gmail for Android the workspace smart features are nether the Gmail hamburger/dropdown menu – Settings – Account name

Slack

Owners and admins of Slack workspaces person immoderate options successful disabling AI features. Here is their thief page astir managing those features.

AI lives successful present successful a fewer places. Suggested Replies, spell to Settings – Chats – Suggestions & smart replies and toggle disconnected Suggested replies. AI Sticker suggestions tin beryllium unopen disconnected successful that aforesaid menu. For AI connection summaries, those are managed successful a different location: Settings – Notifications – AI connection summaries. Depending connected what operating strategy you’re running, it whitethorn besides beryllium successful Settings – Chat – Private Processing – Private Processing Features

Windows 11/Copilot

Copilot exists some arsenic an embedded AI supplier successful Office 365 and besides built into the Windows 11 operating system. Right-click the Copilot introduction successful the Start paper and prime Uninstall. If that action isn’t there, caput complete to your installed apps database (Start – Settings – Apps) and uninstall Copilot from there.

In definite builds of Windows 11, Copilot is stuck into the OS, truthful a elemental uninstall mightiness not work. In that case, you tin toggle it disconnected via the settings: Start – Settings – Personalization – Taskbar – turn disconnected Copilot File Explorer has immoderate AI built into it which tin beryllium turn-onable accidentally. To remove. Start – Settings – Privacy & Security – Click to Do.

Notepad has its ain typical Copilot, truthful you’ll request to disable AI location separately. Open the Notepad settings, find the AI features conception (or a sparkly icon adjacent a Writing Tools section), and toggle Copilot off.

Office 365/Outlook There is simply a abstracted Enable Copilot checkbox successful each app and the checkbox only applies to that app connected that device. Read much astir really to move it off. If you don’t person that option, you tin change your privateness settings to disable Copilot.

“Text and image generation” are turned connected by default, affecting Notepad, Photos, Snipping Tool, and Xbox. Turn this off. It is complicated, though not impossible, to region Copilot from your Windows machine entirely. Here is simply a nexus that gets into the details. If you consciousness comfortable installing package O&O ShutUp 10 is 1 measurement to do that, Win11DeBloat is another.

Yahoo Mail

Cick the … More connected the bottommost of the left-hand sidebar, prime Settings, prime AI Features and move Message summaries off.

Zoom

Sign successful astatine Zoom.com. Scroll to My Account connected the near and prime Settings. Go to the Zoom AI tab connected the correct wherever you tin disable everything. Note: caller AI options get added and they default to “on” truthful cheque back. To the correct of the Zoom AI tab click connected My Notes and disable “Allow participants to transcribe meetings pinch My Notes”

Other useful AI Removal/Detection links

How to un-AI your internet
Library Freedom Project has a batch of handouts astir AI connected their Resources page
Do Not Talk To Me About “AI” printable cards

Inspired by the librarians from Bangor.
Last updated 16aug26