Hidden Google App Toggle Suggests Option to Disable Gemini Live’s Guided Vision
The unreleased setting points to a user control meant to curb real‑time on‑screen object highlights while Google has not confirmed how it will change camera use.
Overview
- Researchers who examined the Google app code found an unreleased menu switch labeled “Guided vision in Live,” indicating developers are building a user toggle for Gemini Live’s Guided Vision feature.
- Guided Vision uses a phone camera to analyze the scene in real time and overlay tracked boxes and labels on objects while a user talks with the Gemini assistant.
- The discovered toggle is not available to standard users and comes from reverse engineering of a specific Google app build rather than an official Google announcement.
- Analysts and reporters say turning the toggle off might either stop the visual overlays, revoke camera access for conversational mode, or revert to simple video streaming without object tracking, but Google has not confirmed which behavior will apply.
- The change would respond to complaints of distracting live overlays and could shift user experience and privacy trade‑offs; Guided Vision first debuted with the Pixel 10 series after an earlier period when Gemini Live offered basic camera streaming without automated highlights.