Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority
Tl; DR
- Google recently informed users that, from July 7, 2025, Gemini will be able to help with applications such as the phone, messages and WhatsApp, that the activity of Gemini applications is activated or deactivated.
- The wave wording in the email has raised confidentiality problems, with little clear users if Gemini will always access these applications even after having withdrawn.
- Although the email indicates that users can deactivate these features in “application parameters”, it does not offer specific steps to do this.
- Google has now clarified what change really means and how it will not have an impact on the confidentiality of users who do not want their gemini cats to be examined or used to form AI.
Update: June 26, 2025 (23:04 pm HE): Google responded to an email request from Android authority Clarification of what the change of Gemini of July 7 means on Android devices. You can read the full declaration of Google below:
This update is good for users: they can now use gemini to perform daily tasks on their mobile devices such as sending messages, launching telephone calls and defining timer while the activity of Gemini applications is deactivated. With the activity of gemini applications disabled, their gemini cats are not examined or used to improve our AI models. As always, users can deactivate Gemini connection to applications at any time by sailing to https://gemini.google.com/apps.
This means that Gemini will act more as a local assistant on your Android device and can now still help with basic tasks even if you have disabled the Gemini application activity. When the activity of the Gemini application is disabled, something you can do navigate Or from the parameters of your Gemini application on Android, your conversations with the AI assistant will remain deprived and will not be used to form AI. You can also disconnect Gemini’s access to applications from the above link shared by Google.
Although the e-mail label may have seemed at the beginning, there is in fact no major reason to worry. Gemini can access messages, WhatsApp and system settings, but your confidentiality remains protected as long as the activity of Gemini applications is deactivated.
Original article: June 26, 2025 (1:33 am he): Google’s Gemini team apparently sends emails to a future change in the way Gemini interacts with applications on Android devices. Email informs users that, On July 7, 2025, Gemini will be able to “help you use the phone, messages, WhatsApp and public services on your phone, whether your Gemini Apps activity is activated or deactivated.” Naturally, this has raised confidentiality problems among those who received the email and those who use the AI assistant on their Android devices.
Not only did the ambiguity in the declaration trigger the confusion of knowledge if the Gemini will have access to said applications and services, even if the users have withdrawn from the activity of the Gemini applications, but the e-mail notes further than those who do not want these features to deactivate them, without clarity on how to do so.
Google’s wave advice to withdraw from this change can be read there is no detail on where to find the option or what is exactly deactivated, especially since the e-mail indicates that these modifications apply, that the activity of the Gemini applications is activated or deactivated.
The e-mail link would have redirected users to the Gemini Apps Privacy Hub, Which, unfortunately, does not offer much clarity on what changes. What does “help you use” in practice? Will Gemini read or send messages, access call newspapers or interact with third-party applications like WhatsApp by default, even when users have taken from these integrations?
With the deployment within two weeks, we contacted Google to get answers. The email was highlighted by Tiptier CID SUR Xas well as by other users. I use Gemini on my Android devices, but I did not receive the email.
