Disable Google Chrome AI Features

Open the AI Innovations Page

Google did not add one AI feature to Chrome - it added a whole layer of them, switched on by default. The good news: most of them live on a single settings page called AI innovations. Click in the Chrome address bar, type this address and press Enter:

chrome://settings/ai

You can also reach it from the three-dot menu, then Settings, then AI innovations in the left sidebar.

Switch Off Help Me Write and AI History Search

On the AI innovations page, click Help me write and turn its toggle Off. This is the tool that offers to draft and rephrase text inside any text box on any website - the "Help me write" item in the right-click menu of a form or comment box. With it off, the menu item disappears; your normal typing, spell check and saved text are untouched.

Back on the same page, click History search (shown as "History search, powered by AI") and turn its toggle Off. History search goes back to plain keyword matching on page titles and addresses. Your history itself is not deleted - only the AI layer over it is removed.

Open the Gemini in Chrome Settings Page

Gemini in Chrome - the AI chat panel at the top of the browser - has its own settings page. Type this address and press Enter:

chrome://settings/ai/gemini

The top of the page decides how visible Gemini is. Turn off Show Gemini at the top of the browser to remove the Gemini button from the toolbar. Turn off Show Gemini in Chrome in system tray and turn on keyboard shortcut so Gemini no longer lives outside the browser window. Turn off Keep browsing with Gemini when you open new tabs so the side panel stops following you from tab to tab.

Set the Gemini Permissions

Still on the Gemini settings page, scroll down to Permissions. This is the page most users never open, and it matters more than the button at the top.

Turn off Share current tab by default - this is the big one. Google documents that when you open Gemini in Chrome, the content of your current tab is shared with Gemini by default. With this off, a page is only sent when you deliberately share it. Also review Precise location (with it off, Gemini can only estimate your location from your IP address), Microphone (voice input to Gemini) and Media understanding (letting Gemini answer questions about audio and video you have played), and turn off anything you never use.

Check the Third Layer - Your Google Account

Gemini in Chrome is signed in as you, and part of its reach is governed at the Google Account level rather than inside Chrome. Two account-level controls are worth knowing:

Connected apps - from the Gemini settings you can manage which of your Google services Gemini may draw on, such as your Workspace apps. Disconnect anything you do not want a chat panel reading.

Gemini Apps Activity - your Google Account keeps a record of your Gemini chats, with its own activity controls in your account's data settings. Deleting or pausing chat history is done there, not in Chrome.

Turn Off AI Themes and Tab Suggestions

Two quieter features live on the same AI innovations page. Create themes with AI generates a browser theme from a text description - turn it off on chrome://settings/ai if it is listed (it also appears inside Customize Chrome on the New Tab page). The tab organizer suggests automatic tab groups; if Chrome keeps suggesting AI tab groups, its control appears on the same AI innovations page on current versions.

What stops: no more AI-generated theme offers and no automatic grouping suggestions. Themes you already applied stay applied until you change them.

Stop the On-Device AI Model Download

Some Chrome AI features run on a model stored on your own PC - Google's Gemini Nano. On PCs that meet its hardware requirements, Chrome can download this model in the background, and it can take up to roughly 4 GB of disk space. Open Settings, then System, find On-device AI and turn it Off (on some versions this toggle sits inside the AI innovations page instead).

To check whether the model is even present on your PC, open this page:

chrome://on-device-internals

Know the Honest Limit

Be clear-eyed about the ceiling of these controls: there is no single master switch that removes every trace of AI from Chrome. The steps above switch off every feature Google gives you a control for - but a small "Ask Gemini" entry can still appear in some versions when you right-click selected text, and AI answers inside Google Search results are a Search product setting, not a Chrome setting. Anyone who promises one click removes everything is selling you a story.

Power users sometimes reach for the experimental flag behind Gemini in Chrome - GLIC - to remove the panel entirely:

chrome://flags/#glic

Turn It All Back On Anytime

Nothing in this guide is permanent, and nothing needs reinstalling. Return to chrome://settings/ai and turn any feature toggle back On - Help me write reappears in your right-click menu immediately. For Gemini, reopen chrome://settings/ai/gemini and restore the presence and permission switches you want; the button and panel return at once. If you switched off On-device AI, turn it back on under Settings, then System, and give Chrome time - the model downloads again in the background.