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How to turn off Gemini on Android — and why you should (proton.me)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 19 hours ago (4 children)

Alternatively:

Install GrapheneOS
Never concern yourself with invasive software again

I've never even seen Gemini on my phone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

None of my work apps nor my banks app are compatible with Graphene. We need legislation at this point.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

So are we just casually mentioning Graphene in every Android article like Linux is mentioned in every Windows article? How many new phones actually support Graphene?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

graphene cant be installed on just any device. the list is quite small actually.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah. If you never install software that is.

A C64 doesn't run invasive software either.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Yes. A GrapheneOS device and a Commodore 64 are basically the same thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

GrapheneOS without any invasive apps is really bare-bones and limited, that's what I wanted to say using hyperbole, but I guess figures of speech are too advanced for some people.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

Thank you definitely few apps I want to remove off my phone.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Use Canta & Shizuku You can uninstall pretty much everything

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago

This combo even got rid of something that was ADB blocked in Android 14.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 22 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