{"id":58516,"date":"2025-06-26T11:24:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T14:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/?p=58516"},"modified":"2025-06-26T11:24:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T14:24:26","slug":"gemini-android-obrigatorio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/en\/gemini-android-obrigatorio\/","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;re going to use Gemini on Android whether you like it or not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google sent an email to Android phone owners warning that Gemini \u201cwill soon be able to help you use Phone, Messages, WhatsApp, and Utilities on your phone, whether your Gemini Apps Activity is on or off.\u201d The change is scheduled for July&nbsp;7<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>The notice generated confusion even in Android-focused publications. \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/06\/25\/gemini-privacy-change-email\/\"><cite>9to5Google<\/cite><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/upcoming-gemini-for-android-change-privacy-settings\/\"><cite>Android Police<\/cite><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/gemini-apps-activity-email-july-7-3570651\/\"><cite>Android Authority<\/cite><\/a>. Even after clarifications, including a statement from Google itself, the whole thing remains\u2026 confusing.<\/p>\n<p>From what I understand, if <a href=\"http:\/\/myactivity.google.com\/product\/gemini\">Gemini Apps Activity<\/a> is disabled, Gemini will continue to be available and have access to the mentioned apps, including WhatsApp and Phone. The difference is that interactions with the AI won&#8217;t be recorded in the history and will be stored by Google for up to 72 hours, with the guarantee that they won&#8217;t be used to train AIs or reviewed by humans.<\/p>\n<p>(In other words, leaving history enabled subjects interactions to AI training and reviews by other humans.)<\/p>\n<p>Those who &#42;really&#42; don&#8217;t want Gemini meddling with calls, messages, WhatsApp, and system settings need to disable integrations with each app within the Gemini app itself. Which seems to be another thing, different from Gemini Apps Activity. I presume <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.google.android.apps.bard\">it&#8217;s this app<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The aforementioned specialized publications, after updating their stories to \u201cclear up the confusion,\u201d concluded that the net result of the change is positive for people&#8217;s privacy. I&#8217;m not so sure about that. Confusions of this type, which sound intentional and try to hide the \u201cnuclear\u201d toggles (that disable the offered feature), tend to be defeats for privacy. And I won&#8217;t even get into the merits of whether Gemini snooping through my messages is good or bad.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe I still don&#8217;t understand it properly.<\/p>\n<p>Related link (I think?): the extensive <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/gemini\/answer\/13594961\">Gemini Apps privacy center<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google sent an email to Android phone owners warning that Gemini \u201cwill soon be able to help you use Phone, Messages, WhatsApp, and Utilities on your phone, whether your Gemini Apps Activity is on or off.\u201d The change is scheduled for July&nbsp;7th. The notice generated confusion even in Android-focused publications. \u2014 9to5Google, Android Police, Android [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_locale":"en_US","_original_post":""},"categories":[1575],"tags":[1846,1844,1999],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58516"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58522,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58516\/revisions\/58522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}