Your iPhone has a Siri AI kill switch. Here’s how to use it

Last month, Apple rolled out its long-awaited AI chatbot, dubbed Siri AI. The launch comes at a time when investors see AI as a must-have offering, while consumers are increasingly cautious about the effects that artificial intelligence will have on their lives and society at large. As AI backlash mounts, it is the latter group who may be the least interested in—or most distrustful of—the new Siri AI. Siri AI is built on top of Google’s Gemini foundational models and is available on every iPhone 15 Pro and later running iOS 27. It is an ever-present chatbot and assistant that has indexed all the data on your iPhone and can understand what is displayed on your iPhone’s screen—and what you are doing with the device. The good news is that if the new Siri AI doesn’t appeal to you, Apple has done something with it that other chatbot giants haven’t: built in a kill switch. Here’s how to use it, and what happens if you do. What exactly happens if you disable Siri AI? Before you understand what happens when you disable Siri AI, it helps to know how it differs from Apple Intelligence. Simply put, Apple Intelligence is the underlying artificial intelligence platform built into iOS. It provi…