How to turn off Gemini on Android — and why you should
How to turn off Gemini on Android — and why you should
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It can be boiled down to: avoid anything big corpos are pushing
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It says to turn it off you open the Gemini app on your Android phone and change some settings. I uninstalled the Gemini app completely. I wonder if it's still running on my account somehow.
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You can manage it from https://myactivity.google.com/product/gemini
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My phone won't let me uninstall it. And it shows it's off yet every now and then it rears it's ugly head.
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- Install adb on your PC
- Enable developer options on your phone
- Enable USB Debugging inside the developer options
- Connect the phone to the PC using USB
- Open a console window of your choice
- Execute
adb devicesand allow USB debugging for this PC on your phone - Execute
adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.google.android.apps.gemini - Done
You can do that with any app you like, they can all be disabled that way. Beware though: if you disable critical system components (like e.g. your last launcher, keyboard or systemui) you might not have a great time using your phone afterwards.
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Use Canta & Shizuku You can uninstall pretty much everything
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As far as I know, on Pixel phones it’s integrated. Discovered that my work phone (Pixel 6) suddenly has it, I’ve never installed it, and I can’t remove it.
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Just dropping some links here:
- https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/
- https://doc.e.foundation/devices
- https://postmarketos.org/install/
nobody has to use an operating system made by an advertisement company.
Except for people with locked boot loaders. They really are trapped in some corporate hellscape. That stuff should just be illegal.
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nobody has to use an operating system made by an advertisement company.
My device's bootloader can be unlocked in 5 minutes, yet it's not on any of these lists you shared
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it’s becoming harder to fully turn off or remove.
They're going to phase out assistant almost completely, migrating features to gemini. Realistically the privacy of assistant was not better, but gemini uses a fully functional LLM and not a huge if-else-switch statement for standard commands.
I think they have the upper hand over AI companies as they own the internet and youtube for training purposes.
But gemini wants to be my friend if I don't stop it, and it's creepy and weird.
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I think it's different in the EU
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“Turn off”
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Is it true that newer pixels have RAM dedicated to AI? And even if I turn of Gemini and delete the app I still won't able to use that RAM?
Is it counted within the usual 8-12gigs or is it seperate?
Just trying to find out incase I buy one for graphineOS
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In Germany we say: "Gemini auf den Sack" and I think it's beautiful.
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easy, install graphene instead
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Ah yes, for the whole 5% of people that have a Pixel
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no problems, just solutions
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Ew, this article is an ad for another company. I feel icky when people try to monetize my basic human rights.
Here's a not for profit article alternative: https://oit.utk.edu/security/learning-library/article-archive/privacy-onboard-ai-google-gemini/