Not OK Google: Gmail now lets you disable suggestions for your emails


How did Google know to do that? Gmail now lets you turn off Google's message scanning for smart features. — Catherine Waibel/dpa

Gmail's eagerness to help you sort out your inbox and write emails faster by automatically reading all your messages is a welcome help to some and invasive and creepy to others.

Now Google is finally giving us all the option to say "no, thanks" and turn off smart Gmail functions like automatic sorting, message categorisation and smart replies.

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