{"id":175977,"date":"2026-01-09T13:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T18:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/09\/gmails-new-gemini-ai-features-can-be-turned-off-but-theres-a-catch\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T13:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T18:10:11","slug":"gmails-new-gemini-ai-features-can-be-turned-off-but-theres-a-catch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/09\/gmails-new-gemini-ai-features-can-be-turned-off-but-theres-a-catch\/","title":{"rendered":"Gmail&#8217;s new Gemini AI features can be turned off, but there&#8217;s a catch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wltx.com\/article\/news\/nation-world\/how-to-turn-off-gmail-ai-training-gemini-features-artificial-intelligence\/507-5ba7947e-fc08-4602-8f5a-1f4fb017e8b0\">Gmail&#8217;s new Gemini AI features can be turned off, but there&#8217;s a catch<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wltx.com\/article\/news\/nation-world\/how-to-turn-off-gmail-ai-training-gemini-features-artificial-intelligence\/507-5ba7947e-fc08-4602-8f5a-1f4fb017e8b0\">https:\/\/www.wltx.com\/article\/news\/nation-world\/how-to-turn-off-gmail-ai-training-gemini-features-artificial-intelligence\/507-5ba7947e-fc08-4602-8f5a-1f4fb017e8b0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-09 13:06:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wltx.com\">www.wltx.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Gmail Enters Gemini Era:<\/strong> Google is rolling out new AI tools by default in Gmail, which is used by over 3 billion people.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>AI Overviews Feature:<\/strong> AI Overviews, already present in Google Search, will help Gmail users find emails by allowing them to type questions into the search bar instead of sifting through threads with many replies.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>AI Writing and Replying Tools:<\/strong> New AI features also include tools to assist in writing and replying to emails, along with an &#8220;AI Inbox&#8221; for personalized email briefings.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Opting Out of AI Features:<\/strong> Gmail users who wish to disable AI features will need to manually turn them off in the Settings menu under the &#8220;Smart Features&#8221; section.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Trade-offs Involved:<\/strong> Turning off the Gemini AI features will also disable other useful tools like autocorrect, spell check, desktop notifications, package tracking, and email category functions.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gmail&#8217;s new Gemini AI features can be turned off, but there&#8217;s a catch https:\/\/www.wltx.com\/article\/news\/nation-world\/how-to-turn-off-gmail-ai-training-gemini-features-artificial-intelligence\/507-5ba7947e-fc08-4602-8f5a-1f4fb017e8b0 Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":175978,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.wltx.com\/assets\/CCT\/images\/c7e0019c-2caa-43a6-ba93-1a8ee28c6218\/20260109T171746\/c7e0019c-2caa-43a6-ba93-1a8ee28c6218_1140x641.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175979,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175977\/revisions\/175979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}