Google rolls out Temporary Chats and privacy controls for Gemini

Google is rolling out a bundle of Gemini AI updates that place greater emphasis on user privacy controls while expanding the assistant’s memory and reach across devices. The centerpiece is a new Temporary Chats mode that allows quick, non-personalized interactions, paired with settings designed to give users more control over what Gemini learns from their conversations. At the same time, Google signaled that Gemini will continue to reference past chats by default to deliver more personalized and proactive responses, unless users decide otherwise.

Under the new arrangement, Gemini’s default behavior remains to recall past conversations to tailor replies and anticipate user needs. Google describes this as making the assistant more personal and powerful, but it has paired the enhancement with a privacy option called Temporary Chats. In this mode, conversations do not appear in Recent chats or Gemini Apps Activity, are not used to personalize the Gemini experience, and are not used to train Google’s AI models. The feature is being rolled out today and will reach all users over the coming weeks. Temporary Chats are stored for up to 72 hours to facilitate response and optional...