↤ January 17th, 2025
Google has started to aggressively out-roll their Gemini AI service and is opting everyone into not only the feature but also a 17% price hike come March.
For Google Workspace users, there is no obvious way to out-out of Gemini in Gmail or Google Docs.
Within a day of this arriving, I received multiple employee complaints about the invasiveness of the service in the respective UIs. That sufficiently motivated me to find a way to turn it all off.
After touring admin.google.com for a good while I concluded there is no off
switch. But I can now tell you how to get one (or four, to be precise), check
this out:
How do you get this? Simple-ish! Talk to support. The upper right corner of your Workspace admin dashboard has question mark icon that lets you contact support. I opted for a chat and after three escalations to higher levels and (nicely) persisting I wanted Gemini to be disabled (rather than replying to their somewhat useless banter) my fourth support contact was able to enable the disable UI for me.
You will find it under Generative AI -> Gemini for Workspace after it has been enabled for you.
This won’t opt you out of the announced price increase, but at least the invasive UI clutter and questionable results are disabled.
Good luck!