How to turn off smart features in the Gmail app on Android

By Abu Bakar Saadat · Reviewed by Saadat Rafiq · 2 min read · 3 steps · Published 7 October 2026

Device

Android

Shown on

Samsung Galaxy A57 5G (SM-A576B), One UI 8.5, Android 16

App

Gmail

Real screenshots

3 of 3 steps

Checked

October 2026

Sources

1 official, linked below

Step by step

1. 

   Find Smart features

   Gmail, menu, Settings, tap your account and scroll to General. Smart features has a tick box; ours was off.

   Done

2. 

   Open Google Workspace smart features

   The row below opens the second set of switches.

   Done

3. 

   Untick both boxes

   Smart features in Google Workspace covers Gmail, Chat, Meet and Drive; Smart features in other Google products covers things like Maps and Wallet. Each lists examples of what stops.

   Done

About this guide

Smart features let Google use your mail to personalise things like Smart Compose and package tracking. Turning them off is a privacy choice. Our Gmail account is a real one, so addresses, senders and subjects are blurred; the only mail we touched was a test message we sent to ourselves. We did not change ours.

The screenshots are from Chrome and the Gmail app on a Samsung Galaxy A57 5G with Android 16 and One UI 8.5, in dark mode. Both apps look the same on other Android phones; only the phone's own settings screens differ by brand.

Good to know

With smart features off, Smart Compose and Smart Reply appear greyed out with a link to turn smart features on, as on our phone.

The settings belong to the account, so they also change Gmail on the computer.

In short: Gmail, Settings, account: untick Smart features; Google Workspace smart features: untick both.