- In your Gmail app, go to Settings.
- Select your Gmail address.
- Clear the Smart features checkbox.
- Go to Google Workspace smart features.
- Clear the checkboxes for: Smart features in Google Workspace, Smart features in other Google products
- If you have more Gmail accounts, repeat these steps for each one.
- Turning off Gemini in Gmail also disables basic, long-standing features like spellchecking, which predate AI assistants. This design choice discourages opting out and shows how valuable your AI-processed data is for Google.
This has finally gotten me to take steps to deGoogle my email, Fastmail trial underway.
I did all that ages ago and re-confirmed, it’s still all disabled…
But Gemini persists:
The hell? How can that be?
The billion-dollar company pays a lot of people to abuse its customers.
After getting into web development, I realize that no abusive tactic is an accident.
Definitely not accidental, no.
What the column has you do is disable Gemini access in Mail, but it is still on for search.