{
  "id": 19024579,
  "title": "Don't like Google Health's AI Coach? Here's how to turn it off",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/08/dont-like-google-healths-ai-coach-heres-how-to-turn-it-off",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-11-08T21:15:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Engadget",
    "slug": "engadget",
    "url": "https://www.engadget.com/2309626/dont-like-google-health-ai-coach-how-turn-off/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Google Health's AI Coach, a feature of the Google Health Premium subscription, allows users to receive personalized guidance on health and wellness. However, if users find the AI Coach intrusive or prefer a break from its advice, they can easily turn it off. This can be done by navigating to their profile photo, selecting \"Your data in Google Health,\" and then \"Feature privacy controls.\" From there, they can manage feature privacy controls and choose to turn off Google Health Coach. Alternatively, users can go to their profile photo, select \"Google Health settings,\" and then choose \"Coaching\" to turn off the AI Coach. Another option is to change the messages on the Today screen from \"Standard\" to \"No Coach insights,\" which will only display basic updates and no messages from the AI Coach. This way, users will still have access to other features of Google Health Premium, such as personalized sleep summaries, advanced sleep tracking algorithms, Sleep Score, and more. If users decide to turn the AI Coach back on, they can do so by tapping the \"Ask Coach\" button on the bottom right and selecting \"Unlock Coach.\" While the AI Coach feature is often valuable, users may choose to disable it for various reasons, such as concerns about privacy, finding it too intrusive or repetitive, or taking a break due to illness or other personal reasons. Despite the AI Coach being a useful tool for logging workouts, meals, and sleep, users can adjust their settings to ensure they receive coaching advice only when they want it, allowing them to control the frequency and relevance of the insights they receive.",
  "summary": "If this Premium feature is bugging you, there's good news: you aren't stuck with it.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}