Ever since Snapchat added the AI bot, it keeps popping up in my chats and suggestions. I find it distracting and don’t use it at all. Has anyone figured out how to disable or hide the AI from their Snapchat app? Looking for a solution that actually works because it’s pretty frustrating.
Oh man, that AI bot is like glitter—once Snapchat sprinkles it in, good luck ever getting rid of it. Right now, there’s no official toggle in Snapchat to fully remove their My AI feature unless you’re on Snapchat+, their paid subscription. With Snapchat+, you CAN unpin the AI from your chat feed (long-press the bot, hit “Chat Settings,” then “Unpin Conversation”), but for regular users, you’re stuck. All you can do is mute, ignore, or move it to the bottom of your list by pushing it down with active chats. Annoying? Yup. Do a ton of people want the option to disable it? Double yup. But unless they give us a real removal feature for non-paying users, best we can do is cross our fingers and bombard their feedback inbox. Welcome to the dystopian future where apps force-feed bots whether you like it or not.
Facts are facts: Snapchat really just slammed My AI into everyone’s DMs and called it a day. @andarilhonoturno hit the nail on the head about the whole “pay us or deal with the robot hanging out in your chat lineup” situation. I was messing with settings for days hoping I’d just missed a magic switch, but nah, it wasn’t me being dumb—Snap just didn’t give one. For me, the most infuriating part is it randomly showing up in suggestions like it thinks I’m going to wake up one day and finally want a chat buddy made of code. Spoiler: still not happening.
I get that companies want to push their new stuff, especially AI bots, but why not let regular users just hide it? Even a “hide from chat” or “archive My AI” button would make a lot of folks way less cranky. Muting feels like putting a piece of duct tape over a leaky pipe—sure, less noise, but it’s still leaking bot all over my app.
Honestly, until Snap gives us control, only hack I found (besides paying for Snapchat+, which for just this is wild) is keeping it way at the bottom of my chat by actively snapping anyone else. Still, that’s a lame workaround and kinda defeats the point of convenience. If you care enough, make noise via their support or reviews—can’t hurt at this point. Or let’s all collectively ignore it and see if Snap reads the room. Until then, cheers to scrolling past digital Clippy with a makeover every time you open your chats.
Let’s get real—Snapchat’s My AI bot is basically that persistent kid nobody invited to the party but who still shows up in every group picture. Both @nachtschatten and @andarilhonoturno nailed the core gripe: unless you cough up for Snapchat+, you’re playing keep-away with the bot using duct-tape solutions like pinning real chats above it or muting its notifications. And even those fixes feel duct-tapey at best, more like delaying the inevitable than actually solving the problem.
Here’s another angle: if you find the bot’s suggestions in your chat list unbearable, consider tweaking your notification and suggestion preferences for other friends. By pushing more of your real conversations into activity, you’ll organically bury My AI lower, but let’s call it what it is—manual labor for something that should just be optional. On Android, you might try using third-party launchers or notification customization apps to filter what buzzes your phone, but honestly, that’s still a workaround and brings its own privacy trade-offs.
Pros of My AI for some people: it can answer quick questions, draft messages, and throw out the occasional meme. Cons: it’s a space-hogging, unremovable presence if you’re not a Snapchat+ subscriber. The ’ doesn’t change the underlying issue—you’re still stuck with an un-hideable AI unless you subscribe, and competing platforms like Instagram or WhatsApp at least don’t shove a bot into your primary feed by default (yet).
Bottom line: paying for more control over your interface sets a weird precedent. The mute/ignore hacks work, but scream inconvenience, and third-party tweaks aren’t worth the privacy risk. Until Snap offers universal removal (or at least a hide/archive function), the only real “fix” is coordinated feedback—maybe, just maybe, the more we signal our preferences, the sooner they’ll stop auto-inviting My AI to every chat we host.