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On my Android phone, when I long press on a word in any app next to copy is a "define" option. I usually ignore this but I just used it for the first time and discovered it actually brings up Gemini "AI". I now wish to disable this. Does anyone know if there's a setting to remove the "Define" menu option?
After reading the replies here, I tried disabling the Google app.
This killed the "define" shortcut on word selection and seems(?) to have had no other bad effects. (My home screen search was already using something else.)
This is weird. If the Google app is doing this, that implies it must have some kind of special permission, to add an item to the selection menu globally. Why did I not find it under permissions? Shouldn't I have been able to turn that permisson off without disabling the app?
What worries me about having the Google app off is sometimes Google, when I log in to Google dot com, will throw up a permission request on my phone as a kind of 2FA. Is that mediated through the Google app? Did I just disable it? Am I now locked out of my Google account potentially if it sends a 2FA notification and there's no app to receive it…? I'm not too worried because if that's true it's reversible. But I'm a little worried
@dimpase@mathstodon.xyz@mcc why don't you switch to a non-google 2FA app, there is some choice of these; I'm using andOTP (or even a terminal or desktop program - this takes the phone out of the picture; I am using a terminal program called pass, with a pass-otp extension) ?
@dimpase I did not elect to use the Google app as a 2FA app; Google just started doing this. I didn't consent to it in the first place and I'm not aware of any method by which I could opt out of it, much less plug in some other app in its place.
@mcc do you mean that thing with a small keyhole icon in the top left corner of the screen which pops up as 2FA notification?