How can I get rid of the horrible 'AI Assisitant' ? I hate, hate, hate, hate eeverything about it. I hate the popups that constantly get in my way every time I open a new PDF, I hate the way it dramatically slows down the application every time I want to just search for something, and I hate that way that it doesn't work at all or provide any value of any form. I just want it gone and never, ever, ever, ever, under any circumstances want it to be there getting in the way of every simple thing I want to do. Please, please, please, please: how can I make it just go away? I just want to open and look at a PDF for heavens sake, I don't need any of this AI nonsense.
Tone is COMPLETELY understandable. We are using Acrobat for business. We don't need controls popping up and blocking our work if our mouse pointer wanders into the wrong neighborhood. This has never once helped my workflow. I getcha.
Finally, after all the responses to uncheck the AI features which doesn't work, Disabling the New Acrobat seems to have finally removed that annoying button from the screen. Now if all of the people at Adobe would just tell people this and stop referring to the stupid Generative AI checkbox to turn it off because it doesn't do crap!
This still doesn't stop the annoying pop-ups (and ALWAYS right in the middle of whatever you're doing so you can't see anything). This is off on my Acrobat account and it's still being foisted on me. How do you disable this COMPLETELY?
If you scroll to replies from June, you'll see mine that states: "If you have the free version of Reader, then you can revert back to the previous version of it. Try going into the View menu and select from the drop down, "Disable new Acrobat". Adobe will automatically restart. The AI thing that appears in the upper right corner should disappear after that."
Also, fyi: I'm using the free version and I have MacOS.
Have you tried looking in the Home tab... with the house. In Apple, that might be where the Disable New Version is located and when you click on it, that home tab will probably disappear as it goes back to the last version.
I have disabled/removed the ridculous AI Assistant no less than 3 times, but it keeps showing back up. How do we permanently remove it? Don't want it. Don't need it. Don't want to see it.
In all fairness, Adobe did provide one option for me on this: In the upper left corner of Acrobat Reader, select the MENU (3 horizontal lines). From the drop down menu, select DISABLE NEW ACROBAT READER. This made the artificial idiot button (and other features I presume) go away... for now.
Thank you! This was exactly the answer I needed. The Generative AI was already switched off, but I was constantly getting pop-ups suggesting I try it out, which were getting in the way and slowing things down. Disabling the new acrobat reader fixed it!
Oh thank you! I had not realized this was an option, and it now that I've "disabled new acrobat" the user experience is much more tolerable for me. Really appreciate you pointing this out.
As far as I could determine that solution doesn't work for an Android phone. I sure do agree with the op. This new feature sucks and should never been made a requirement
I tried your suggestions. 1. The generative AI box was NOT clicked to begin with. 2. The cards box was clicked and I unclicked that. Restarted. Cards are gone. AND the AI Assistantbutton is still all over my document reading screen. EVERY time I open a document I have to go to the bottom of the screen and force it to hide the search bar, or whatever it is.
NONE of the AI stuff is necessary. It should be an OPT IN not a mandatory - too bad if you don't like it, can't opt out scenario. I want an update that makes 100% of the AI OPTIONAL, such that when someone wants the AI, they have to go turn it on and configure it for the features they want; and the rest of us can go on our merry way and actually get some work done.
Very poorly done by Adobe that they would force this on everyone rather than making an optional feature. AI is a benefitless feature that does nothing to make my work easier.
I did this because the ai window pops up blocking the pdf I'm trying to view. Now that I disabled it, it STILL makes a popup to block the pdf, asking if I want to renewable ai. NO! I DISABLED IT FOR A REASON! I DONT WANT IT! I DO NOT LIKE GREEN AI'S AND HAM!
I've done what you suggested to the OP, but AI is still showing up in the software, like he mentioned. How can we completely get rid of the AI tools and assistant? If this is not possible, it needs to be in future versions. I don't want AI enabled or included by default, and it just turns this software into bloatware. I will never use the features, and I don't want it offered or suggested.
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