{"id":588645,"date":"2026-08-10T06:26:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T06:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/588645\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T06:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T06:26:14","slug":"how-to-disable-gemini-in-gmail-and-google-docs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/588645\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Disable Gemini in Gmail and Google Docs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you noticed how desperate tech companies are to get you to use their artificial intelligence<\/a> features, even if you don\u2019t want to use them? They\u2019re adding buttons to user interfaces and using pop-up tool tips to implore you to click them and become a dedicated user of their AI creations.<\/p>\n

Google Docs, for example, is rolling out a giant Gemini bar at the bottom of the screen<\/a> for some users. I first noticed this feature back in April, when it showed up in the Google Docs account I use to collaborate with editors. Apparently I was part of the pool of users chosen to test the feature<\/a>. I know people who have never seen this box, and I\u2019ve seen reports of it showing up for people in the last few weeks. So it varies.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re one of the users who sees this feature and you don\u2019t want it on your screen, good news: the giant bar is easy enough to hide.<\/p>\n

Click Gemini in the menu bar, then hover over Bottom bar preferences and select Turn off.<\/p>\n

\"Image<\/p>\n

Courtesy of Justin Pot<\/p>\n

Do that and the bar is gone. It can\u2019t hurt you any more.<\/p>\n

But if you\u2019d like to banish AI features from Google Docs entirely, you can keep going. There are a couple ways to stop things like the Gemini menu from showing up in Google Docs. The first, which is working for some people but not others, is to change a setting in Gmail. The second, which seems to be working for everyone, is to install a Chrome extension.<\/p>\n

First, a caveat: the process is a little different for personal Google accounts (basically, any account with an @gmail.com email address) and company accounts that use Google Workspace<\/a> (basically, any account managed by your employer with an email address of your company\u2019s domain). For company-issued Workspace accounts, it\u2019s up to the administrator to decide which AI features you do and don\u2019t see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Have you noticed how desperate tech companies are to get you to use their artificial intelligence features, even…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80,245272],"class_list":["post-588645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology","tag-technology-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}