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Transform Your Writing with Apple Intelligence Tools

Apple Intelligence is a new AI feature for iPhone 15 Pro and later, allowing users to rewrite text in seconds. It includes tools for improving writing, managing messages, and ensuring privacy. Despite its capabilities, the author suggests it needs refinement compared to Grammarly Pro. Compatibility and usage instructions are provided.

RAYMOND OGLESBY @RaymondOglesby2
January 20, 2026 – 4 minutes read time

Overview

Now, there’s an easy way to rewrite any text or email in just a matter of seconds. With Apple Intelligence, you can now let your iPhone’s AI rewrite text for you.

Apple Intelligence is capable of using handy rewriting tools to change up any passage of text that you have typed, as long as you are using an iPhone 15 Pro or later model. Let’s explore this AI feature.

What is Apple intelligence

Apple Intelligence is a suite of AI-powered tools that use your personal data to generate information and recommendations tailored to you. It’s available on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and is integrated into the core of the operating system and existing apps. 

Apple Intelligence includes features like: 

  • Image Playground: A tool for generating cartoon-style images based on text descriptions 
  • Genmoji: A tool for creating emojis for any situation 
  • Writing Tools: Tools for enhancing your writing, including ChatGPT integration and reformatting tools like List and Table 
  • Priority Messages: A tool for prioritizing messages in your inbox 
  • Notification summaries: A tool for scanning long or stacked notifications with key details 
  • Reduce Interruptions: A Focus that surfaces only notifications that might need immediate attention 
  • Smart Reply: A tool in Mail that identifies questions you were asked in an email and offers relevant selections to include in your response 

Apple Intelligence is designed to protect your privacy at every step. It’s aware of your personal information without collecting it, and it uses on-device processing and Private Cloud Compute to handle more complex requests. 

Key aTakeaways

  • Rewrite and improve typed text anywhere on your iPhone.
  • Make sure your messages are always written correctly.

System Requirements

This tip works on the iPhone 15 Pro or later running iOS 18.1 or later. Screenshots are from iPhone 17 Pro running iOS 26.1.

Click here to learn how to update your iPhone to the latest iOS version.

How to Use

First, in any area where you have typed text, such as an email, select the text. Refer to the below image:

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selecting an email text

Next, you can tap Rewrite or the Apple Intelligence icon. If you tapped the Apple Intelligence icon, select Rewrite. See the image below:

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Selecting the Rewrite option

Now, tap Original to see the original. See the following image:

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Selecting the Original option

Next, tap Rewrite to rewrite it again. Refer to the image below:

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Selecting the Rewrite option again

Now, you can use the Undo and Redo buttons to cycle through different rewrites. See the image below:

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Selecting the Undo option

Next, you can tap the Rewrite icon to rewrite the text again. See the following image:

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Selecting the Rewrite icon

Now, select  Done to save the rewritten text. Refer to he image below:

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Save your changes

That’s how to use the new Apple Intelligence rewrite tools to change up your text after you have typed it.

In the author’s opinion, Apple Intelligence is lacking and needs refinements. We prefer to use Grammarly Pro.

Disclaimer

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How to Disable AI Overviews in Google Search

This post provides tips for handling AI-generated summaries in Google search results. It explains how to disable these overviews using specific search modifiers.

RAYMOND OGLESBY @RaymondOglesby2
July 23, 2024 – 3 minutes read time

This is for devices running Google or Bing. Screenshots are from Windows 10 desktop

Get the Latest Desktop Google Update

Open Google, click the 3-dot menu icon (upper right corner), then click the Settings option. If Google is outdated, it will automatically update.

Why You Will Like This Tip

  • View your Google or Bing search results without an AI-generated summary.
  • Narrow your search results to what you just want to preview.

Overview

We rely on Google every day to provide us information. But what happens when our source of knowledge becomes messy and unreliable? AI Overviews utilize Google’s Gemini AI to provide an answer to your query right on the search page; no need to click.

Using the AI Modifier

Still in its infancy, this feature occasionally surfaces incorrect information, so some web surfers look to disable it entirely. There are a few ways to make an AI Overview go away, but no method is as simple as tricking Google itself into getting rid of it. Google uses search modifiers, named operators, which help narrow search results. Here are a few examples:

  • Use quotations (” “) to search for the exact phrase
  • Add site: to search a single website
  • Search for a certain type of file with filetype:
  • Exclude terms with a minus (-) symbol. The minus symbol stands for NOT.

If we ask “who owns Facebook” an AI-generated summary will be displayed. Refer to the below image:

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With AI-generated summary

And if you add the term -AI at the end of the query, an overview is not generated. It’s a very simple solution to the AI Overview problem that can be quickly repeated on subsequent queries without needing multiple steps. See the below image:

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Without AI-generated summary

However, it’s worth noting that this does not work because of the -AI modifier. On subsequent tests, we found that putting pretty much anything in there (Ex: -i, –sports, -farm) also did the same thing.

Summary

So, no, Google did not add a secret AI kill switch to its search engine. Instead, AI Overviews are likely only available under certain conditions, and by using a search modifier, you circumvent those parameters. Still, it’s an easy way to game the system until we get an easier way to disable these overlays.

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