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How to turn off Webex AI Assistant

Cisco's AI Assistant is part of Webex, not a guest. Only the host and cohosts can start or stop its summary, unless the host lets everybody.

Part of Cisco's own app Read on 9 November 2026

How it got into your call

Turn it off

  1. The host chooses who may control it: Only the host and cohosts can start and stop the summary, or Anyone can start and stop the summary.
  2. The host also chooses what is kept: Save summary and transcript (what Webex picks unless it is changed), Save summary only, or Don't save summary and transcript.

Stop it in a call that is running

  1. The host or a cohost clicks Stop summary in the AI Assistant panel. On a phone: tap AI Assistant, then Stop summary. That ends it for everyone.
  2. A guest can do the same only if the host chose to let anyone start and stop it. Otherwise, ask the host.

What it keeps

Unless the host changed it, both a summary and a transcript are saved to the host's account in the Webex app. If the meeting was held in a Webex space, links to both appear in that space.

In Cisco's own words

Who can stop it
Cisco“Only the host and cohosts can start and stop the summary”help.webex.com/en-us/article/nyzkuik
The button
Cisco“Stop summary”help.webex.com/en-us/article/nyzkuik
What is kept unless the host changes it
Cisco“Save summary and transcript”help.webex.com/en-us/article/nyzkuik

Read on 9 November 2026 from Cisco's own help pages. Something changed? Tell us.

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