Google’s Gemini team is apparently sending out emails about an upcoming change to how Gemini interacts with apps on Android devices. The email informs users that, come July 7, 2025, Gemini will be able to “help you use Phone, Messages, WhatsApp, and Utilities on your phone, whether your Gemini Apps Activity is on or off.” Naturally, this has raised some privacy concerns among those who’ve received the email and those using the AI assistant on their Android devices.
Just… Disable it. You can switch to the old assistant.
The article says that they are changing their policy so that even if you turn it off it will still be feeding your actions to AI.
Read the article yo.
You have to have Gemini itself enabled as your assistant on your phone for that.
I wish I knew how. Did this several times already, it always magically turns back on after a couple of weeks.
until google decides thats not allowed either
That’ll be the day I switch phones.
If I have to use a walled garden, then I’ll go the OG Apple daddy.
Look I like my apple stuff too, but it’s foolish to trust Apple not to do obnoxious things for money. We need a Linux phone.