Gemini is about to slide into your DMs

Google’s AI chatbot is coming to Messages. Meanwhile, Android Auto gets some AI smarts and Google Docs will let you add handwritten comments.

I opted out of using Gemini when they launched in on my pixel 8. Will this affect me? Time to start digging.

Edit: looks like I’m in the clear until they implement this on the backend because I don’t have the Gemini app on my phone.

One can disable google assistant via adb, I would assume even if google retires the former in favor of gemini, the newer could also be disabled via similar means.

I just don’t want to use Gemini. I opted out and so far as I can tell from what I found online I don’t have to worry about this unless they bake Gemini into apps I have installed for now. Doesn’t look like I need to disable Gemini via ADB right now. And since I actually use Google Assistant, I’ll stick with it till they force me to change over.

Then Google Messages is about to slide out of my phone’s installed apps list.

Now that Simple SMS Messenger by Mobile Tools has been bought, the answer is its fork, the Fossify SMS Messenger on f-droid.

Looks like Fossify is also on the Play Store.

Wild question I never thought I’d be asking, anyone know a stripped down SMS app I can use instead of the default?

I don’t want to see AI features and I don’t wanna participate in helping anyone build a LLM

Textra or Chomp SMS.

Textra is more feature rich but I had a problem setting custom notifications on Xiaomi phone so I switched to Chomp. Fun fact: both are developed by the same developer.

I’ve been using the Fossify SMS Messenger for a few weeks now and it does everything I need a messaging app to do.

My recommandation, stop using SMS

Switch to E2EE chats

I’ve tried, but literally everyone else I know absolutely hard refuses to switch to Signal. So, L I guess.

And here is the exact reason Signal dropping SMS was a terrible decision.

Yeah. Very few of the people I know have any interest.

Up to you what you choose to share when the information goes over open air

I’m not sure this can be done more easily without root access as many Android services and Gapps are intertwined.

You can try this solution via ADB, this is just an example

pm uninstall --user 0 com.android.app

As for SMS app, I use QKSMS

I just saw this, it’s available on f-droid and play store

Deku SMS is an Android SMS app.

Deku SMS is being developed as a proof-of-concept for secure SMS messaging, SMS image transmission and SMS-Cloud communications.

https://github.com/deku-messaging/Deku-SMS-Android

It’s not FOSS but I used Textra for years and it’s quite great. I don’t think it supports bubbles, but it’s worth checking out

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