Grounding search feature Gemini 2.5 pro

[Olivefilms]

How do I disable the citation urls in the grounding google search feature for google Gemini 2.5 pro in your ai studio website when they output a response? It seems really annoying, and i just want

like the actual response instead of bulky URL’s taking up more than 3 quarters of the space

I’ve attached an example

[Akhilesh_Kambhampati]

@Olivefilms ,

welcome to the forum ,

have you tried asking this in your prompt. you can ask to “avoid giving references or citations” in the prompt and that will help .

Let me know if that works

[user3106]

I’m encountering the same issue. This only happens when the AI responds in a plain text format.