How to disconnect Google Drive from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, and Perplexity

The Morse teamPublished November 10, 20269 min read

To disconnect Google Drive from ChatGPT as of November 2026, open Settings, then Plugins, select Google Drive, open the ••• menu beside your account (or the Connection section), and choose Disconnect. That stops ChatGPT reaching your Drive through that account, but OpenAI says it "does not automatically delete existing or archived conversations, saved files, your Memory summary, or other saved memories" (OpenAI). The same steps disconnect Gmail, Google Calendar, Slack, or GitHub, and the same gap applies to Claude, Gemini, Copilot, and Perplexity.

We read the help pages of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, GitHub, and Slack on November 10, 2026, and Perplexity's help pages in Internet Archive copies saved on October 17 and October 26, 2026. Older guides send you to Settings, Apps in ChatGPT. OpenAI has since renamed the menu, and says only "very old versions of the iOS or Android app may show Apps instead of Plugins" (OpenAI).

Where each AI keeps its disconnect button, and what it leaves

Each row is from the company's own page, read November 10, 2026.

All five treat disconnecting as a stop for future reads. What the app already pulled into your chats stays there, and only Perplexity's disconnect step asks whether to delete synced files.

How do I disconnect Google Drive or Gmail from ChatGPT?

Through Plugins. OpenAI's steps are the same for Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Outlook, Slack, and GitHub:

1. Open Settings, then Plugins.
2. Select the app, or the plugin that includes it.
3. If Connected accounts appears, open that account's ••• menu. Otherwise use Connection or the plugin's ••• menu.
4. Select Disconnect.

If you connected two Google accounts, each needs its own disconnect, since "other connected accounts can remain active." Uninstalling a whole plugin "can disconnect all accounts connected through that plugin" (OpenAI).

Changing an app's permission to Always ask doesn't count as removing it. OpenAI says permission settings only change "when ChatGPT asks before using the access the app already has," and that to remove access you disconnect it or ask your workspace admin to disable it (OpenAI).

What OpenAI keeps after you disconnect

Your chats and memories. OpenAI's Google page says "disconnecting an app does not automatically delete existing chats or saved memories," and that disconnecting Drive doesn't "change your original files in Google Drive" (OpenAI). If Memory was on while Gmail was connected, "eligible information" from your mail may have become a memory. Deleted chats follow ChatGPT's normal rule: "scheduled for permanent deletion within 30 days," unless they've been de-identified or OpenAI must keep them for security or legal reasons (OpenAI).

So disconnecting is the first of three steps. Delete the chats that quote your files, then the memories. Our guides cover turning off ChatGPT memory and deleting ChatGPT history step by step. If a scheduled task watches your inbox, delete it too; we cover that in are ChatGPT scheduled tasks private.

OpenAI earns credit for one rule here. It says it doesn't train its models "on data directly from connected Google apps," except data you rate, paste, or upload, or that appears "in ChatGPT's response" (OpenAI). Other connected apps get no such carve-out on Free, Plus, Go, and Pro: OpenAI "may use information accessed from apps to train our models" while Improve the model for everyone is on (OpenAI).

How do I disconnect Google Drive from Claude?

Go to Customize, then Connectors, select Google Drive under Your connectors, and choose Disconnect. Anthropic says the connector "stays in your list and shows Connect," and the three-dot menu's Remove takes it off your account (Anthropic). Gmail and Google Calendar are separate connectors, each with a page of its own and the same buttons.

The toggle in a chat's + menu only pauses a connector. Anthropic's words: "The connector stays connected: Claude is still signed in to the service on your account" (Anthropic).

Anthropic is plain about what stays. Data retrieved through Google connectors "is stored on Anthropic servers" and "retained with its associated chat, so you can delete any retrieved data by deleting the chat." It says it doesn't train on Gmail, Drive, or Calendar connector data, but on consumer plans with training on, content you copy and paste from them, or Claude's replies that include it, "may be used to improve our models" (Anthropic). More on that switch is in is Claude private.

How do I disconnect apps from Gemini?

On gemini.google.com, open Customize, then Connectors, find the app, and choose More options, then Disconnect (Google). We cover this path, and the AI switches inside Gmail itself, in how to turn off Gemini in Gmail.

Google says the most about what stays. Chats in Gemini Apps Activity survive the disconnect, and Google says that data "can still be used for product improvement, including training generative AI models." Deleting your activity keeps it out of future training "unless it has already been reviewed by trained reviewers" (Google). The same page asks you not to connect apps "if they contain confidential information that you wouldn't want a reviewer to see." Our guide to whether Gemini is private covers how long reviewed chats are kept.

How do I disconnect Copilot or Perplexity from Gmail and Drive?

In Copilot, the switch is per conversation. On Copilot.com select +, then Use connectors; in the mobile app, select your profile, then Connectors; then "toggle the connectors you want to use in this conversation on or off." Copilot connects to OneDrive and Outlook.com through the Microsoft account you sign in with, and to Gmail, Google Drive, Calendar, and Contacts through a Google sign-in. Microsoft says Copilot "does not store a separate copy of your data" and doesn't train on it (Microsoft). Its page describes no separate disconnect button for a Google account, so to cut Copilot off from Google for good, remove its access in your Google Account (below).

In Perplexity, open Plugins in the sidebar, or Customize, then Connectors if you don't see Plugins yet. Open the connector and select Disconnect. Perplexity says "the connection is removed everywhere it is used, including inside plugins," and that uninstalling a plugin leaves your connectors connected, so removing the plugin alone doesn't cut access (Perplexity, archived October 17, 2026). For Google Drive, Perplexity says that when you disconnect "you can choose whether you'd like to keep or delete your files"; kept files stay in your account but "will no longer synchronize." Drive content imported into a Project "is copied at the time of import" (Perplexity, archived October 26, 2026). The keep-or-delete choice is more than the other four offer at the moment of disconnecting.

How do I remove an AI app's access from my Google Account?

Open your Google Account's linked apps page, filter by Access to your Google Account, select the app, choose See details, then Remove access and Confirm (Google). Google says that once you remove access, "the app can't access your Google Account," whatever the AI app's own settings still show. Anthropic's troubleshooting still points to myaccount.google.com/connections and a Delete all connections button (Anthropic), wording Google's current help page has replaced, so look for Remove access.

Google's page adds two cautions. Removing Sign in with Google for an app "doesn't delete your data on the app." And a newer Agent access filter lists apps that Gemini or other Google agents can use for you; removing an agent's access "does not disconnect or delete your Google Account's link with that app."

How do I revoke ChatGPT or Claude from Microsoft, GitHub, and Slack?

Each service keeps its own list, separate from the AI app's.

• Microsoft work or school account: in the My Apps portal, hover over the app, select ..., then Manage your application, and Revoke Permissions for what you consented to. Permissions your administrator granted can't be revoked by you.
• GitHub: ChatGPT's GitHub connector is a GitHub app that you install and then pick repositories for (OpenAI). After disconnecting in ChatGPT, go to GitHub Settings, Applications, then Installed GitHub Apps, click Configure, and Uninstall (GitHub). The Authorized GitHub Apps and Authorized OAuth Apps tabs each have a Revoke button (GitHub, GitHub).
• Slack: click your workspace name, Tools & settings, Manage apps, Installed Apps, the app, App Details, then Configuration. Under Authorizations, find Authorized members, click See all, and Revoke your own authorization. Remove App takes it out of the whole workspace, which a Workspace Owner may restrict (Slack).

How to get AI help with a file without a standing connection

Every step above exists because a connector is a standing key to your mailbox or Drive, held by the AI company, and what it pulls into a reply lands in chat history the company keeps on its servers. Disconnecting takes back the key. The history stays until you find it and delete it.

Morse keeps your chat history in your browser, encrypted, instead of on our servers. Our servers don't keep your messages or log what you write. A file you attach is sent with that one message and never stored by Morse, so a document you share once leaves no second copy on our side for you to hunt down later. Morse doesn't train AI on your content, sell your data, or show ads.

Pick a mode by how sensitive the question is:

• Private, the default, for questions about a contract or a budget you'd rather no host keep. Open-weight models like DeepSeek, Kimi, and GLM, plus xAI's Grok, answer with your account, email, and IP address stripped. Morse has zero data retention agreements with its inference, search, and other providers, so they keep nothing.
• E2EE, for anything nobody else should read. Paste in only the passage you need. Your browser checks the secure enclave's hardware attestation before anything leaves your device, then encrypts the message so only that enclave can read it, and our servers relay ciphertext they can't read. E2EE runs open-weight models, without web search or image generation, and rests on the enclave hardware and attestation working as designed.
• Anonymous, to ask GPT, Claude, or Gemini about a document without signing in as you. Our proxy removes your account, email, and IP address and sends the message under Morse's own account. The provider sees the text without knowing it's you and may keep it for a limited time to check for abuse, under its own policy, so cut names out first.

Whichever mode you pick, the history sits encrypted in your browser and locks when you sign out, and unlocking needs a key kept on your device plus one our server hands you at sign-in. Because we don't store chats, we usually have very little to give authorities. Clearing your browser or deleting your account deletes your chats for good, and we can't recover them, so keep a copy of anything you need. Our privacy policy lists what the account holds, such as sign-in details, plan, balance, and a usage ledger with no message content.

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