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Google’s Gemini team is apparently sending out emails about an upcoming change to how Gemini interacts with apps on Android devices. The email informs users that, come July 7, 2025, Gemini will be able to “help you use Phone, Messages, WhatsApp, and Utilities on your phone, whether your Gemini Apps Activity is on or off.” Naturally, this has raised some privacy concerns among those who’ve received the email and those using the AI assistant on their Android devices.

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[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

An ungoogled android variant has to be a lot lesser of an evil, no?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Problem is that if you have a critical application (like banking) that relies on Google services you're SOL.

It's Apple or Google at that point.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Just use the websites instead of the apps.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

But then you can’t tap to pay with your phone.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Well then I guess you will have to sell your soul to the devil for those extra seconds of convenience

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"Do you guys not have laptops?"

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

GrapheneOS can sandbox apps to use the Google services only with permitted apps.

Note I don't actually have a GrapheneOS capable phone at the moment, but I've been getting familiar with it in hopes of switching soon, so I'm just relaying what I've read.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

You guys are really making me consider GrapheneOS.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Its what made me buy a pixel phone.

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