Google is making Gemini access to important apps opt-out, and Gemini will be given access to those apps in the coming days.
Google is automatically giving access to important apps like your phone, messeages, WhatsApp, and other utilities to Gemini so that Gemini can take actions that involve those services. Based on the email that has been going around this access will be given to Gemini whether the user has turned off the relevant settings or not, but the wording of the email is unclear. Either way, action may have to be taken sooner rather than later by users.
Summarized by me.
I’m trying to figure out whether people who don’t have Gemini installed are affected by this. Do I have to install Gemini to turn off this setting and then uninstall or disable the app? As far as I can tell, I don’t have Gemini even as the active assistant over Google Assistant, so I want to think I’m good.
I hate how in the recent year, we are being forced to have bigger devices, because the smaller devices loose 70% of screen space to AI popups. It’s infuriating. And on the larger phones, we still loose like 40%, which is so stupid.
Can Gemini be disabled or uninstalled on LineageOS or GrapheneOS?
I’ve never used WhatsApp - but I live in the US where we have free SMS. So I just use that with people who refuse to use Signal with me.
What do people outside the US use when they delete WhatsApp?
Yeah Most Likely That Insert Big Greedy Corporation Here Has Been Trying To Shove AI Into Every Single Device We Use Is Starting To Become Like A Si-fi movie
Oh My Gosh What An brilliant cast we have got ourselves into