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article: https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/07/unless-users-take-action-android-will-let-gemini-access-third-party-apps/

haven't found a public google announcement, the screenshot seems to be from emails

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[–] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world -4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Show proof of how an app got on your phones? Sure get me a user account on your tooling!

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

My sincerest apologies, I am a clown. Previous posts edited.

[–] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world -4 points 4 days ago

Butthurt because fake news.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Edit:

Fuck, I'm wrong, you're right. I must have spot checked the Gemini fan club or something out of my end users. Still don't know how all our luddite inter-office mail couriers got it.

Looks like Google has added a Gemini options page to Android settings regardless of the app install, which is where my confusion on my own device came from.

Old postMy... tooling? So you don't even understand what MDM means. Ugh. Hope you had fun with the shitposting.


For the crowd, it's mobile device management. In this scenario, it is being used to manage access to company resources (work email) through specific siloed off apps on employees' personal phones. Employee says "I want to read my work email from my phone", we say "sure, just install this MDM that allows us to remotely wipe it from your phone, or to wipe your entire phone, and also lets us track your phone's location and all installed apps".

Personally, as part of the team that admins that system, I don't allow it on my personal device.

It could be used to manage company owned phones and tablets for places that use them instead of point of sale systems, but the general use case is for managing "bring your own" personal devices and their access to work data.

Point is, Gemini is installed on too many of my end-users' personal devices for it to be just something people are choosing to install themselves. Not enough tech savvy people here for that to work out statistically. Our fucking interoffice mail couriers have it (at least the ones with phones new enough to support our MDM).

Plus, it's on my personal phone. I sure as hell didn't go out of my way to install it. It came in through the standard Google Play app updates. Like everyone else but this dingleberry is saying.