How-to Disable and Remove Gemini from Your Phone

Google’s Gemini is a powerful AI assistant, but not everyone wants it working behind the scenes on their phone. If you’re looking for a way to get rid of the Gemini app, this updated blog post will show you how-to uninstall disable or completely remove the Gemini app from your phone.

Video Tutorial Showing How-to Uninstall Disable & Complete Remove Gemini from Your Phone

Video Tutorial Showing How-to Disable Gemini on Android

Step 1 Select ‘None’ Default Digital Assistant App

Open “Settings” app on your phone. Then from the search bar on top of the screen, search for “Digital Assistant” and Select “Default Digital Assistant App”

If Gemini is enabled on your device, default Google App would be selected as your android device digital assistant app. Simply Select “None” to disable your Android phone’s digital assistant.

Step 2 Turn Off Gemini

• Open the Settings app on your Android device
• Scroll down and tap on Google App
• Tap on All Services
• Tap on Search, Assistance and Voice
• Tap on Gemini
• You will see an option “Choose your digital assistant from Google” and “Gemini” will likely be selected. To turn it off, press on the link “You can turn off your digital assistant from Google at anytime”
• Select “Turn Off

Now you have disabled Gemini and it will no longer be working on your phone.

Want to Turn It Back On?

Reserve the steps above to re-enable Gemini as Google Digital Assistant.

Want to Disable or Force Stop Google’s Digital Assistant Too?

• Open the Settings app on your Android device
• Scroll down and tap on App
• Find Assistant App
• Select “Force Stop” and or “Disable”

How-to Uninstall Gemini If Gemini App is Installed on Your Phone

If you want the Gemini app gone for good, the process can sometimes be as simple as uninstalling any other app from your device’s App Management, or from Google Play store.

• Go to the Google Play Store on your Android device
• Then, search for “Google Gemini”
• If the Gemini App is installed, you should see an ‘Uninstall’ button (or the Bin icon). Tap it to remove the Gemini app from your phone

You can also uninstall Gemini App through your phone Settings too.

Managing Your Gemini Activity and Data

Even after you disable or remove the Gemini app, your past activity might still be saved to your Google Account. If you want to delete this data, you can do so by managing your Google Activity.

How to Delete Your Gemini Apps Activity

• Go to myactivity.google.com/product/gemini on your phone’s browser.
• Here you can view all your past interactions you’ve made with Gemini.
• You have the option to delete specific activities, or, your entire Gemini history.
• You can also turn on/off future Gemini Apps Activity from being saved to your account.

Android Option to Turn Off Digital Assistant from the Phone’s Core

You can simply turn off Android phones ability to use “Digital Assistant” by selecting “NONE”. Then simply Turning Off Gemini like so:

Open “Settings” app on your phone. Then from the search bar on top of the screen, search for “Digital Assistant” and Select “Default Digital Assistant App”

If Gemini is enabled on your device, default Google App would be selected as your android device digital assistant app. Simply Select “None” to disable your Android phone’s digital assistant.

Want to Disable or Force Stop Google’s Digital Assistant Too?

• Open the Settings app on your Android device
• Scroll down and tap on App
• Find Assistant App
• Select “Force Stop” and or “Disable”

How-to Disable Gemini’s Response to ‘Hey Google’ and Voice Match

Imagine that the only annoying thing was Gemini’s ability to respond to your voice commands like “Hey Google” and you just want to disable that only without removing Gemini. You can simply disable that option only like so:

• Open the main "Settings" of your phone
• Locate and Tap "Google"
• Select "All services"
• Select "Search, Assistant and Voice"
• Select "Gemini"
• Select "’Hey Google’ and Voice Match"
• Toggle Off "Hey Google"
• Toggle Off "While Driving"

Google’s AI (Artificial Intelligence) tools and technology by far is the best available, but if you’re not using it, then, disabling and or removing it can improve your device performance as well as usability of your smartphone.