How to turn off Meta AI

Meta has embedded the Meta AI assistant virtually everywhere across its platforms. The AI assistant can sometimes be a little too present, in fact. The chatbot will try to get you to start a conversation with it, and clutter your screen with AI summaries of posts and suggested follow-up questions. Perhaps recognizing that, Meta has made it impossible to outright remove Meta AI from your apps.

Still, there are options to at least reduce Meta AI’s presence In this guide, we’re going to show you what you can do to cut down on Meta AI across Facebook and Instagram, and how to remove the automated summaries written by Meta AI.

Because Meta won’t actually allow you to get rid of the Meta AI chatbot, your only option is to mute it. Here’s how to do it on Facebook and Instagram.

• Open the Facebook app and log into your account
• Tap the “search” button, which might open up Meta AI as well.
• You will see a prompt to “Ask Meta AI anything.”
• Tap the blue navigation triangle on the top right corner, which will open the chatbot.
• Tap the “i” in a blue circle at the top of the screen as seen in the image above.
• Tap the mute button, which is next to the “share” and “profile” buttons.
• You can then say how long you want to mute Meta AI for, from 15 minutes up to “until I change it.”
• The same process applies to Instagram.
• You’ll still see the Meta AI branding in the search bar and you can still pull it up if you choose, but it won’t be quite so intrusive.