• workerONE@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    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.

    • Leon@pawb.social
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      11 hours ago

      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.

    • Fredselfish@lemmy.world
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      20 hours ago

      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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        19 hours ago
        • 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 devices and 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.

        • Ulrich@feddit.org
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          13 hours ago

          Alternatively:

          • Install GrapheneOS
          • Never concern yourself with invasive software again

          I’ve never even seen Gemini on my phone.

        • Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          14 hours ago

          I don’t have a Gemini app on my phone. The only way to somewhat disable it is through the settings app.

        • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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          19 hours ago

          it would be great to have a non-ml degoogle comm. but then i’m also not willing to put in the work to moderate right now so maybe i’m a whiny asshole

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            16 hours ago

            If nobody whines, people think we are ok with how things are, whining is good, even of we can’t do something about it