Gemini AI needs to be disabled on Android or it will override your privacy settings and gain full access to your texts, calls, and WhatsApp - even if you’ve turned off Gemini Apps Activity. But what does this Android update really mean, and how can you stop it? Check out

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    12 hours ago

    Steps to disable Gemini app connections:

    Open the Gemini app from your Android > device
    

    Click on your profile in the top right corner Open Apps Click to toggle off each app extension

    Wait…what Gemini profile…I literally don’t have one, I open this dogshit and it asks me to change to Gemini. Guess I’m immune since I never plan on activating that dogshit

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      10 hours ago

      IIRC, these settings are created by installing the Gemini app - if you haven’t elected to download it that’s why you don’t see the settings.

      Who knows when that app will mysteriously appear though.

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        8 hours ago

        Just another thing to uninstall through ADB terminal. Never buying Samsung again…can’t root this garbage sadly

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    15 hours ago

    Learn how to disable it Graphene Calyx Lineage iode Muerena Postmarket UBTouch

    Bring them attention until manufacturers are selling devices with their OS.

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        13 hours ago

        Yes, I meant /e/OS, I didnt realize they didnt change the OS name lol. Thanks for the links too!

        And yeah, its a bit odd that people have clung to Graphene as the be-all-end-all when all of them have strengths and weaknesses.

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    16 hours ago

    It’d be nice if any of the articles about Google Gemini would mention that none of this applies to the EU instead of needlessly spreading FUD.