The new feature keeps Gemini ahead of Anthropic, which released its own chat memory function a couple of days ago for its Claude chatbot. Claude’s new memory works the way Gemini’s used to, where you have to specifically ask Claude to reference old chats and apply that knowledge to new conversations.

In order to stop Gemini from training on your personal conversations, you’ll need to turn off the ‘Gemini Apps Activity’ option by going to the settings page on the website or iOS/Android app. Google is soon going to change the name of this setting to “Keep activity” after a new update, but the process to turn it off will remain the same.