Samsung’s betting big on the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra’s Galaxy AI, hoping that a boosted feature set will tempt you to upgrade to the latest flagship – but what if you’re not interested in Samsung’s AI-powered tools?
Thankfully for the more AI-adverse among us, there’s a way to purge Samsung’s new flagship of most of its AI features, leaving behind only traces of its AI-powered prowess. The problem? It can take a little while to disable the wide-ranging features as there’s no master kill switch. The AI, it’s learning…
All jokes aside, here’s how you can remove most of the AI features from your Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra – and pretty much any other Galaxy AI-powered device in Samsung’s collection.
What you’ll need:
- A Samsung Galaxy S25/Plus/Ultra
- The Settings app
The Short Version
- Open the Settings app.
- Tap Galaxy AI.
- Tap the Galaxy AI feature you’d like to disable.
- Toggle off the feature.
- Repeat for any other feature you’d like to remove.
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1Open the Settings app
The first step is to open the Settings app. You can find the app in the app tray, or in the top-right corner of the quick controls menu.
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2Tap Galaxy AI
Samsung has made life a little easier for the AI-adverse among us by bringing all the Galaxy S25 Ultra’s AI settings together – no need to endlessly hunt through the Settings app this time! Simply scroll down the list until you see the Galaxy AI, and tap it to continue.
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3Tap the Galaxy AI feature you’d like to disable
Here, you’ll see a complete list of every Galaxy AI feature available on the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra. To continue, tap the first feature that you’d like to disable.
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4Toggle off the feature
You’ll be presented with a range of AI feature-specific settings and functions that let you customise how it performs. There should also be a toggle at the top that turns the feature on and off. To disable the feature, simply toggle it off.
It’s also worth noting that some AI features are made up of multiple smaller ones, like Browsing Assist, so you’ll need to tap the individual features within the list to disable them one by one.
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5Repeat for any other feature you’d like to remove
Once toggled off, return to the main Galaxy AI section and rinse and repeat steps 3 and 4 as necessary.
There are quite a few Galaxy AI features on Samsung’s latest flagship, so disabling each individually might take a little while, but you’ll be left with an AI-less phone once all is said and done.
FAQ
Galaxy AI is the umbrella term for all of Samsung’s AI-powered features on Galaxy devices like the S25 as well as its Galaxy-branded foldables and tablets. It’s not available on budget and mid-range Samsung devices, however.
Unfortunately not – you need to disable them individually, one at a time.
It’s a combination of the two; while more generic functions like web page summaries rely on cloud-based processing, more sensitive features – like AI image editing – happen on-device – on the Galaxy S25 range, anyway.
