By skyforbes If you turn off Gemini Apps Activity which is the setting that stops Google from using your chats to train their models — then they also delete your entire chat history after 72 hours. And going forward, you can’t keep any long-term history at all unless you allow your data to be used for training in the first place.
In other words:
If you want basic features like saved conversations, continuity, or context… you’re required to let Google train on your chats.There’s no middle ground.
No “save my history but don’t use it for training.”
No “let me keep my conversations without feeding the AI.”
Nothing.
The result is honestly counter-productive:
If someone wants privacy, they lose core features.
If someone wants core features, they lose privacy.
And all of this is because Google chose to mix “training permission” and “history retention” into one setting, instead of giving users the obvious choice:
“Keep my chats” and “don’t train on them.”
I don’t know why Google thinks that’s a good idea, but it’s a strangely outdated approach that basically punishes people for wanting privacy.