Google Health Premium subscribers who want to silence the service's Gemini-powered AI Coach can now switch the feature off in the app's settings without giving up the rest of their subscription. The option arrived through an update released in August 2026 and lives in the app's privacy controls, where the feature can be toggled off and turned back on whenever the user chooses. The change applies to US subscribers of Google Health Premium, the paid tier that includes AI Coach; the free Google Health tier does not offer the feature at all.
Cancelling Premium remains the most direct route to removing AI Coach entirely, since the coaching feature is not part of the free tier. Users who want to keep the other Premium benefits, such as personalized sleep summaries, advanced sleep tracking algorithms, Sleep Score, Health Guardian monitoring for noticeable changes in health and wellness, cycle predictions and nutrition tracking, can instead leave the subscription in place and disable only the coach. The feature combines personalized guidance, recommendations and summaries, and pairs with trackers such as the new Fitbit Edge.
Turning the coach off carries tradeoffs. Users lose personalized guidance, recommendations and summaries, and they can no longer tap the Ask Coach button to ask questions and chat about their health and wellness. The function also stops being available for logging meals, though manual logging still works. Google does not delete any previous data when the feature is disabled.
Restoring the coach does not happen through the same menu used to disable it. Users instead tap the Ask Coach button that remains visible at the bottom right of the app and select Unlock Coach to begin the restoration process. Subscribers bothered specifically by notifications can go to their profile photo, then Google Health settings, then Push notifications, and turn Coaching off so they are not pinged whenever coaching advice arrives; that step may be worth trying before disabling the feature altogether.
The article's author, Christine Persaud, wrote that she has used AI Coach to log the exact weights she lifted during a strength training session and to adjust workouts around a shoulder injury, noting that the feature does not provide medical advice. She also uses it to photograph meals and log protein, carbs and fat intake, and said the coach learns more about a user's lifestyle the more it is used. She added that the repetitive advice can become annoying and that users may find themselves ignoring insights more often than reading them. Reasons to pause the coach include privacy concerns, finding it intrusive or repetitive, or taking a break from personalized insights during illness, injury or a personal funk, according to the report.
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