Privacy and Security Enable or Disable Text and Image Generation for Apps in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off text and image generation for apps using generative AI for your account or all users in Windows 11.

Text and image generation uses on-device generative Al technologies to quickly respond to requests.

Starting with Windows 11 build 26120.4741 (Beta 24H2) and build 26200.5710 (Dev 25H2), you can now visit the Settings > Privacy & security > Text and image generation to see which third-party applications recently used generative AI models provided by Windows. This page gives you visibility into the specific apps leveraging local Windows provided generative AI models and allows you to control which apps are permitted to use them—putting you in charge of your device’s AI experience. The UI is present in this flight, however the functionality will light up in a upcoming flight.

Turning off Text and image generation will not affect apps and features using cloud Al technologies.

You must be signed in as an administrator to use this option.

1 Open Settings (Win+I).

2 Click/tap on Privacy & security on the left side, and click/tap on Text and image generation on the right side under "App permissions". (see screenshot below)



3 Turn On (default) or Off Text and image generation for what you want. (see screenshot below)

This will enable (on) or disable (off) users ability to use Option Three, Option Four, and Option Five.

4 You can now close Settings if you like.

You must be signed in as an administrator to use this option.

This is the same setting as Option One.

1 Do step 2 (on) or step 3 (off) below for what you want.

This is the default setting to allow using Option Three, Option Four, and Option Five.

(Contents of REG file for reference)

This will disable and prevent using Option Three, Option Four, and Option Five.

(Contents of REG file for reference)

4 Save the .reg file to your desktop.

5 Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

6 When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

7 You can now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.





1 Open Settings (Win+I).

2 Click/tap on Privacy & security on the left side, and click/tap on Text and image generation on the right side under "App permissions". (see screenshot below)



3 Turn On (default) or Off Let apps use Text and image generation for what you want. (see screenshot below)

Turning off Let apps use Text and image generation, will disable and gray out Option Five.

4 You can now close Settings if you like.

This is the same setting as Option Three.

1 Do step 2 (on) or step 3 (off) below for what you want.

This is the default setting to allow you to use Option Five.

(Contents of REG file for reference)

This will disable and prevent you from using Option Five.

(Contents of REG file for reference)

4 Save the .reg file to your desktop.

5 Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

6 When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

7 You can now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.





1 Open Settings (Win+I).

2 Click/tap on Privacy & security on the left side, and click/tap on Text and image generation on the right side under "App permissions". (see screenshot below)



3 Click/tap on Let apps use Text and image generation to expand it open if able. (see screenshot below step 4)

4 Turn On (default) or Off any available listed apps you want. (see screenshot below)


5 You can now close Settings if you like.

You must be signed in as an administrator to use this option.

The Local Group Policy Editor is only available in the Windows 11 Pro, Enterprise, and Education editions.

All editions can use Option Seven to configure the same policy.

1 Open the Local Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc).

2 Navigate to the policy location below in the left pane of the Local Group Policy Editor. (see screenshot below)



3 In the right pane of App Privacy in the Local Group Policy Editor, double click/tap on the Let Windows apps make use of Text and image generative features of Windows policy to edit it. (see screenshot above)

4 Do step 5 (enable), step 6 (disable), or step 7 (default) below for what you want.

This will turn on and prevent using Option One, Option Two, Option Three, Option Four, and Option Five.

This will turn off and prevent using Option One, Option Two, Option Three, Option Four, and Option Five.

This is the default setting to allow using Option One, Option Two, Option Three, Option Four, and Option Five.

8 You can now close the Local Group Policy Editor if you like.

You must be signed in as an administrator to use this option.

This is the same setting as Option Six.

1 Do step 2 (enable), step 3 (disable), or step 4 (default) below for what you want.

This will turn on and prevent using Option One, Option Two, Option Three, Option Four, and Option Five.

(Contents of REG file for reference)

This will turn off and prevent using Option One, Option Two, Option Three, Option Four, and Option Five.

(Contents of REG file for reference)

This is the default setting to allow using Option One, Option Two, Option Three, Option Four, and Option Five.

(Contents of REG file for reference)

5 Save the .reg file to your desktop.

6 Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

7 When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

8 You can now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.


That's it,
Shawn Brink