Someone at Google can read your chats with Gemini, even after you delete them.

The exact clicks

1. Open gemini.google.com in a browser on a computer and sign in to the Google Account you use with Gemini.
2. Click Settings & help at the bottom left, then click Activity. You can also open myactivity.google.com/product/gemini directly.
3. Near the top of the Activity page, click On.
4. Choose Turn off to stop new chats from being kept in your activity and picked for review. Or choose Turn off and delete activity to also delete what is there now.
5. Optional: still on the Activity page, click Choose an auto-delete option and pick 3, 18 or 36 months (the default is 18). This shortens how long your activity is kept, but it does not remove a chat that was already picked for review.
6. Optional: if you want to send something sensitive anyway, treat it like a search box — Google says chats made with Keep Activity off are held for 72 hours and not reviewed unless you send feedback.

What changes

• Read on 3.11.2026 on Google's Gemini help page (support.google.com/gemini/answer/13594961).
• Google says a subset of chats is reviewed by human reviewers, disconnected from your account first, and that reviewed chats are retained for up to three years and are not deleted when you delete your activity.
• With Keep Activity off, and for Temporary Chats, Google says chats are retained for 72 hours, not used to train its models, and not reviewed unless you send feedback.
• Topic chosen because episode 60 promised it on air, and because the best recent episodes are all "something is already happening to your data".

What it will not do

• This channel did not test this on a live account. Google does not say how many chats are picked — only "a subset".
• The steps above are for the Gemini website. Google's activity page links a separate article for Android and iPhone that this channel did not read, so no phone steps are claimed.
• The Turn off button labels come from Google's help page; the interface may differ slightly by country or account type (for example a work or school account).