TIP: Enable or Disable All New AI Features in Microsoft Edge

Microsoft Edge web browser in Windows 10 and Windows 11 is getting many AI-powered features and services and this article will help you in enabling or disabling all new AI features in the web browser.

Recently Microsoft started adding lots of new GenAI-powered features to the Edge web browser. For example, the latest Microsoft Edge 126.0 version comes with new AI theme generator feature which allows users to create new themes for Edge using a simple text prompt.

Microsoft has also officially announced about a few AI features which are available in the latest version of Edge web browser such as AI generated workspaces.

Microsoft is rolling out these AI features in phases, and some Edge users have already received these features and some are waiting for them. If you don’t want any extra or forced AI functionality in Edge web browser and want to get rid of all bundled AI stuff from your web browser, this article will help you.

Similarly, if you haven’t received these new AI features but want to test drive them right now in your web browser, this article will help you in activating and enabling these AI features manually in Microsoft Edge.

List of AI-Powered Features that are Available in Microsoft Edge

Following are all new AI features which can be used in Microsoft Edge web browser:

• AI Theme Generator
• AI-Writing Assistant/Rewrite with Copilot/Compose on the Web
• AI Generated Workspaces
• AI-Explained DevTools

AI Theme Generator is a new tool powered by Microsoft Designer in Microsoft Edge that lets users generate browser themes using DALL-E and apply them to Microsoft Edge UI. Users can input a text prompt and the AI feature will generate a new theme including background images and color styles which can be applied to the web browser to change its look-n-feel.

AI-Writing Assistant is also known as “Rewrite with Copilot” or “Compose on the Web”. It assists users in writing on the web with AI-generated text, re-writing, changing tone, formatting the text, etc.

AI Generated Workspaces feature automatically creates a workspace from a topic asked by the user from Bing search box.

AI-Explained DevTools feature explains Developer Tools with AI.

NOTE: At the moment, only above mentioned AI features are available in Edge. In future, many more AI features are going to be added to the web browser, and we’ll keep updating this article to include instructions for enabling or disabling all new AI features for your convenience.

AI-Powered Features might Collect and Send Data to Servers

At the moment, most of these new AI-powered features and tools are available to a limited set of Edge users only. All AI features will be rolled out to all users and regions in coming months and future versions of Microsoft Edge web browser. Also many more AI-powered features will be added in future versions of the web browser.

Since these features are AI-based, there are chances that some data might be collected or sent to Microsoft servers to help train or improve AI features. Due to the possible data collection, many Edge users might want to disable these new AI features. Also some users might not find the new AI-powered features useful and might see these new features as bloatware.

On the other hand, many people who haven’t received these new AI features in their web browser, might want to enable them right now in Edge to test them.

Enable or Disable AI-Powered Features in Microsoft Edge Using Flags Page

Fortunately, there are a few hidden secret preferences/flags available to enable or disable these AI-powered features in Microsoft Edge. You can modify these secret preferences to turn on/off the new AI features in Edge using following steps:

STEP 1: Open Microsoft Edge web browser and type edge://flags/ in address bar and press Enter. It’ll open the advanced configuration page.

STEP 2: Now type AI- in the “Search flags” box.

Look for following options on the page:

STEP 3: To disable a desired AI feature in Edge, select Disabled from the drop-down box given next to the option.

To enable a desired AI feature in Edge, select Enabled from the drop-down box given next to the option.

STEP 4: Microsoft Edge will ask you to restart the browser. Click on “Restart” button to restart Microsoft Edge.

After restarting Edge, the desired AI feature will be enabled or disabled in the web browser based upon its value applied on the flags page.

PS: If you decide to restore default setting for the AI feature in Edge, select Default option from the drop-down box for the option on edge://flags page and restart the browser.

Enable or Disable AI-Powered Features in Microsoft Edge Using Registry Policy

Microsoft has also provided official policies which can be implemented to activate or deactivate new AI-based tools and services in Edge web browser.

Following steps will help you in enabling or disabling these AI features in Microsoft Edge web browser by modifying Windows Registry:

STEP 1: Press “WIN+R” key combination to launch RUN dialog box then type regedit and press Enter. It’ll open Registry Editor.

STEP 2: Now go to any of following keys:

If you want to add or remove the AI feature for all Windows users:

If you want to add or remove the AI feature for current user only:

STEP 3: Under Microsoft key, create a new key and set its name to Edge

STEP 4: Now select Edge key and in right-side pane, create following DWORD values to enable or disable desired AI-powered feature in Edge:

ComposeInlineEnabled – To enable or disable AI-Writing Assistant feature

AIGenThemesEnabled – To enable or disable AI Theme Generator feature

To create the above mentioned DWORDs, right-click on empty area and select “New -> DWORD (32-bit) Value” option.

STEP 5: Now set the new DWORD values as following:

Change DWORD value to 1 to activate and enable the AI feature in Edge.

Keep the default value set to 0 which disables the AI feature in Edge.

STEP 6: Now restart Edge browser and new AI-based features and tools will be enabled/removed in your web browser based on the Registry value set by you in your device.

PS: In future, if you decide to restore the AI features settings in Edge, delete the above mentioned DWORDs from Registry.

Ready-Made Registry Script to Enable or Disable AI Features in Edge

If you don’t want to modify registry yourself, we have created ready-made Registry script files for you to apply the required Registry tweaks automatically.

Download following ZIP file, extract it using 7-Zip or other file archive utilities and run the extracted REG files:

The script file will ask for confirmation, accept it.

After applying the Registry script, restart Edge and the AI features will be enabled/disabled automatically.

The ZIP file also contains extra registry script to restore default settings for the AI features in Edge.

Your Browser is Managed by Your Organization Message After Applying Registry Tweak

After applying the above mentioned policy or registry tweak, you may notice “Your browser is managed by your organization” message showing on Edge Settings page and main 3-dots Menu in your Edge browser. Don’t worry! It happens when you implement a policy in the web browser. You can safely ignore the message.

Following article provides more details about this message:

[Fix] Your Browser is Managed by Your Organization Message in Microsoft Edge

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