- Google’s Gemini AI assistant begins to remember your past chats
- You can opt out of the feature
- Gemini also adds a new “Temporary Chat” mode to one -time interviews
Google Gemini will remember all the questions you ask on the app now unless you do not politely ask it. The AI Assistant will look at and refer to your past chats as a way of customizing future, but only for Gemini 2.5 Pro for now.
With the memory feature, Gemini could theoretically remember your favorite party themes, the YouTube channels you are in, or how you like to compose e emails for your friends without having to remind it. Gemini’s memory is not different from the memory feature offered by chatgpt and other AI chatbots. And while Chatgpt can now connect to your Google account, Gemini originally has access to Gmail, Calendar and Google Docs.
The memory is by default on, so you will have to make a little effort if you would rather gemini don’t track your chats. You can turn off the memory or back in the Settings menu under personal context and slide the “Your Previous Chats” option to turn off.
In addition, the section is called “Gemini Apps Activs” Now “Keep Activity.” When this setting is active, some of your future uploaded files and photos can be used to train and improve Gemini and other Google services. You can also opt out of it if you wish.
Temp conversations
As much as Google is eager to make sure Gemini can remember what you say to it, the company paired the roll -out with the opposite, the new temporary chat. This incognito mode makes every conversation a disposable, making sure it is not stored in your story, appearing on the activity list or sent to Google to train Gemini.
After a 72-hour grip for security, they are completely deleted unless you submit explicit feedback which will be processed and then discarded. Temporary chat is designed for the moments when you want to ask something you are not sure you will remember, no matter what it is.
The temporary chats can reassure people who are concerned that Google just wants more of their data, but the company obviously hopes that people find value in giving Gemini a memory. Google’s goal is to encourage people to think of AI as a long -term interlocutor, not just a tool you reintroduce yourself every time you interact with it.
Regardless of any concerns, AI developers are very eager for memory, as AI assistants, without it, are just smart parrots. Technically, they are still just parrot data, even with personalization, but they will be less wise about it. Whether it is exciting or disturbing depends on your appetite on intimacy with software.
