--- title: "Who Is Angie? How to Remove Elementor’s AI Nag Banners, Popups, and Telemetry (2026)" url: https://theplusaddons.com/blog/remove-elementor-ai-nag-banners/ date: 2026-06-05 modified: 2026-06-05 author: "Aditya Sharma" description: "If you opened Elementor recently and found a pink \"Angie\" button in the top-left of the editor, a \"What's New\" badge, and a notice bar nudging you to upgrade, you..." image: https://theplusaddons.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/banner-elementor-ai-1024x538.jpg word_count: 1669 --- # Who Is Angie? How to Remove Elementor’s AI Nag Banners, Popups, and Telemetry (2026) If you opened Elementor recently and found a pink "Angie" button in the top-left of the editor, a "What's New" badge, and a notice bar nudging you to upgrade, you did not install anything. Elementor did. The most common first reaction is a very fair question: who is Angie, and how do you turn this off? You are not the only one asking. A thread titled "Who the f**k is Angie?" went up on r/elementor with one line of body text: "Elementor, this is too much! Turn this off!" If your editor suddenly feels crowded with AI prompts, upsell banners, and a chatty assistant you never asked for, this guide is the calm version of that Reddit thread. Here is what is actually appearing, how to remove it, and how to keep a builder that stays out of your way. - **Who Angie is** and why your editor changed without you touching a setting - **Every AI and nag element** Elementor now injects, named by what it really is - **A community code snippet** that hides the lot in about two minutes - **The official switches** Elementor gives you for AI notifications and usage data - **A lighter setup** that keeps the widgets you need without the editor noise   Table Of Contents ## Who is Angie, and why did your editor change overnight? Angie is Elementor's AI assistant. It is the conversational layer the company has been building into the editor so you can generate copy, images, layouts, and even custom widgets by describing what you want. Elementor documents the whole family of these tools under its "Elementor AI" and Angie help section, so this is a deliberate product direction, not a bug on your site. The friction is not that AI exists. It is that the prompts arrived turned on, in the workspace where you do focused work, and in front of the clients you hand the editor to. One agency owner on r/elementor put the feeling plainly: "It's a betrayal to us agency owners who pay for these larger agency plans and bring a ton of users to their product." Another said simply, "sadly it's really too much," and in a separate comment, half-joking: "a fork of the free version without the upsell stuff would be awesome! Librementor or so." If you want the fuller picture of what these features do before you switch them off, our walkthrough of [what Elementor AI actually does](https://theplusaddons.com/blog/how-to-use-elementor-ai/) covers the useful side. This guide is about turning down the volume.   ![Elementor AI and the Angie assistant documented in Elementor](https://theplusaddons.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/i-taPX72NsabgcEjibcv005HzAqMFvC1u8JzCeS86leKYjAmM839TUssEcOg5nMDIdRibDqDFDU80QyZywShbw-scaled.png)Elementor's own help hub for Elementor AI and the Angie assistant. This is a deliberate product direction, not a bug on your site.   ## What is actually showing up in your editor Before you remove anything, it helps to name each piece. A community member published a snippet that targets these elements by their exact CSS selectors, which is the clearest inventory of the new clutter you will find anywhere. Here is what each one is: - **The Angie button** (top-left of the panel) opens the AI assistant. - **The pink AI button** in the editor, an inline prompt to generate with AI. - **"Create custom widgets with Angie"**, a new category in the widgets panel. - **The notice bar** at the top, which also carries license-expiry and upgrade nags. - **The "What's New" badge** and the help button, both pulling attention out of your layout. None of these touch your published site. They live in the editor chrome. That is good news, because it means you can hide them without affecting a single visitor-facing pixel.   ## The fastest fix: a community snippet that hides the AI and nag UI The cleanest method I have seen comes from Reddit user u/serafinobono, who posted it in the thread "How to remove AI and nag banners from the Editor window" with an honest preamble: "I am a bit annoyed about how much Elementor tries to shove their upsells not only into my face - but also into my customers faces when they edit pages with Elementor." The snippet hooks into the editor footer and hides the AI and nag elements with CSS. Add it as a PHP snippet using a code-snippets plugin (or a child theme's functions file): `add_action( 'elementor/editor/footer', function() { echo ''; } );`   A few notes before you paste it. This hides the elements visually rather than disabling the underlying features, which is exactly what most people want: a quiet editor without breaking anything. Keep the snippet in a code-snippets plugin so it survives Elementor updates, and review the selectors after major releases, since Elementor occasionally renames editor classes (the same churn we wrote about in [the Atomic editor changes in V4](https://theplusaddons.com/blog/elementor-atomic-editor-explained/)). If a selector stops matching, the worst case is that one button reappears, not that your site breaks. If you would rather hide native widgets too, our guide to [hiding or disabling Elementor widgets](https://theplusaddons.com/blog/hide-disable-elementor-widgets/) uses the same low-risk approach.   ## The official switches Elementor gives you If you prefer to stay inside Elementor's own settings rather than add code, the company documents two relevant controls in its help center: - **Turn off AI notifications**, Elementor's documented setting for silencing the AI alerts and prompts. Open Elementor's "Turn off AI notifications" help article for the current toggle, since the exact location moves between releases. - **Share Usage Data**, the control that governs whether Elementor collects usage information from your site. Elementor's "Share Usage Data" help article shows where to switch it off. I am pointing you to Elementor's own articles for the click-by-click steps on purpose. The settings have shifted location more than once across recent versions, and a guide that hard-codes a menu path goes stale the moment they reorganize it. The two switches above are the names to look for. The usage-data one is worth flipping regardless of the AI question, because controlling what leaves your site is the same instinct that makes people [control which AI crawlers can read their content](https://theplusaddons.com/blog/wordpress-robots-txt-ai-crawlers/).   ![Elementor help article for turning off AI notifications](https://theplusaddons.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/4xLOrCDtKLD2GXUMKzwo_utcAFJmvJWfJUpszWw25dZdYcuM6mLJxD2SbZUsYq4a2s4gvfSjQ63cls_zdjA9hQ-scaled.png)Elementor documents a "Turn off AI notifications" setting and a "Share Usage Data" control in its help center.   ## A lighter setup: keep the builder, lose the bloat Hiding buttons treats the symptom. The deeper question agencies keep asking is whether the editor has to feel this heavy at all. You can keep building in Elementor and still run a workspace that does not nag, because the widgets doing the real work do not have to come from the same place as the upsells. That is the idea behind The Plus Addons for Elementor. It adds widgets many projects reach for, like dynamic listings, advanced tables, carousels, forms, and headers, without adding a second layer of AI prompts on top of your canvas. You install what you need, the editor stays focused, and your clients see widgets instead of advertisements. If you build sites for other people, that calmer handoff is worth more than any single feature. It also pairs with the way Elementor itself is changing. While the core editor adds AI surface area, a focused widget library lets you keep doing dynamic work, the kind we cover in [building dynamic content without Elementor Pro](https://theplusaddons.com/blog/dynamic-content-without-elementor-pro/), without inheriting the noise. For the bigger picture of how the pieces fit, our [2026 WordPress and Elementor stack guide](https://theplusaddons.com/blog/wordpress-elementor-stack-2026/) lays out a setup built for focus.   ![The Plus Addons for Elementor widget library](https://theplusaddons.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Yh5Z4pcLWkSmqipRGyJ3prPVTdSokcAr4V-HqTCFQnLu55ThCXL1C2-TETCDgeSEdAiPJyPEOFppZO2r8YZdiw-scaled.png)The Plus Addons for Elementor adds the widgets most projects reach for, without a second layer of AI prompts on the canvas.   [Explore the widget library that stays out of your way](https://theplusaddons.com/elementor-widgets/)   ## Bonus: see what your site sends to AI in the first place Turning off the editor's AI prompts is one half of taking back control. The other half is knowing what AI systems do with your published content once it is live. Telemetry inside your dashboard and AI crawlers out on the open web are two sides of the same question: what is leaving your site, and do you approve of it? If that question interests you, [RankReady](https://store.posimyth.com/plugins/rankready/) is a free plugin built to make AI visibility legible: which assistants cite you, which crawlers fetch you, and how your content reads to them. It is a different job from removing the Angie button, but it comes from the same desire to be in charge of the AI touching your site rather than the other way around.   ![RankReady plugin store page for AI search visibility](https://theplusaddons.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/idB9fN9ANCIzHDu0JuO7_Qv_-q3ohPNIeLuW6BOy5BxYtyICPfGjp67h34TRzZS3hgB4EJlUtxn2CM71Oaf76g-scaled.png)RankReady tracks which AI assistants cite you and which crawlers fetch your published content.   ## Your two-minute cleanup checklist - Add u/serafinobono's snippet through a code-snippets plugin to hide the Angie button, the pink AI prompt, the custom-widgets-with-Angie category, and the notice bar. - Open Elementor's "Turn off AI notifications" setting to silence the AI alerts at the source. - Flip "Share Usage Data" off if you would rather Elementor not collect usage telemetry. - Decide whether you actually want the editor this heavy, and lighten your widget stack if you do not. - Re-check the selectors after major Elementor releases in case a class name changes.   Angie is not going away, and some of the AI work is genuinely useful once you choose when to invoke it. The goal here is not to fight Elementor. It is to put you back in control: a quiet editor, telemetry on your terms, and a widget setup that respects the fact that you and your clients came to build, not to be sold to. ## Suggested reading - [How to use Elementor AI](https://theplusaddons.com/blog/how-to-use-elementor-ai/), the other side of the coin if you want to keep some of the features you are now disabling. - [Is Elementor V4 production-ready?](https://theplusaddons.com/blog/elementor-v4-production-ready/) An honest verdict on the bigger transition behind all this change. - [How to hide or disable Elementor widgets](https://theplusaddons.com/blog/hide-disable-elementor-widgets/), the same low-risk technique applied to the widget panel. - [Remove the "Powered by Elementor" label](https://theplusaddons.com/blog/remove-powered-by-elementor-in-forms-email/) from forms and emails for a fully white-labeled handoff.