I took AI out of my daily apps and it simplified everything

I’ll admit: I’m not exactly thrilled about the steady rise of AI tools on devices such as the recently introduced iPhone 17. For me, this opinion has less to do with any worry about privacy. Instead, I’ve found many of the tools to be too unreliable or gimmicky for use on both native and third-party apps at this time. With this in mind, I recently began to question whether it was possible to remove or at least disable AI features on my favorite apps. Unfortunately, the answer to this question is fuzzy, at best.