Like every other major tech company at the moment, Apple has its own take on AI text generation. It’s called Writing Tools, and it won’t write your essays for you, but it can polish your writing and help you proofread and rewrite text.

But a rewrite is a rewrite, and Apple Intelligence does indeed replace the entire text. What you wrote is gone, replaced by something entirely new. That might be okay if you’re just editing an email, but it has serious implications if these tools are used by your kids or students to edit their assignments.

You may want to disable these features on your family’s iPad or Mac if your kids regularly use those devices for homework or online tests. If you’re a teacher and your school uses iMacs or Mac Minis, you’ll definitely want to do this too. Third-party apps and websites like ChatGPT are easier to monitor and block, but when technology like this is integrated directly into the operating system, it can be much harder to turn it off, or even figure out how to turn it off.

Unlike other AI features like Notification Digest and AI Categories in the Mail app, there’s no easy off toggle for this one. Sure, you can disable Apple Intelligence entirely, but then you’ll lose out on useful features like the Photo Clean Up tool. Thankfully, you can still disable Writing Tools, but the catch is that you’ll have to use content monitoring options, which are usually pretty hidden. Here’s how to disable Apple Intelligence’s Writing Tools entirely, but before we go there, let’s take a look at what exactly they do.