How to Turn Off annoying AI Features on your Google Pixel Phone
The Google Pixel phone comes with a plethora of AI features, and not all of them are bad. Magic Editor, Add Me, and Live Translate are some of the AI features that I use frequently on my Pixel 10 smartphone. Similarly, there may be some AI features on your Pixel smartphone that you’re using regularly.Since everyone has a different set of features they find helpful, disabling the AICore and all AI services on your Pixel smartphone is not the ideal decision. Doing so completely turns off AI on your Pixel device, meaning you will no longer be able to use even the AI features you enjoy.The better approach would be to manually disable only the AI features you find annoying, one by one.
Below, I have highlighted the steps to disable the AI features that I personally find unnecessary on my Pixel smartphone.
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