What to know
- You can now ask Gemini questions about your Gmail inbox.
- The feature is available only on Android and requires a paid Gemini subscription.
- Tap on the Gemini star at the top of the Gmail inbox or from within an email.
After recently integrating Gemini into Gmail on the web, Google is now bringing the power of AI to your inbox on Android as well. Starting today, you’ll be able to ask Gemini questions about your Gmail inbox and unearth details buried in your emails.
This Gmail Q&A feature works similarly to the Gemini side panel on the web. According to a new Google blog post, “You can ask Gemini questions about your inbox or to do things like find specific details in your emails, show you unread messages, view messages from a specific sender, or summarize emails about a topic in your inbox.”
The Gemini-powered feature is available to Gemini Business, enterprise, Education, Education Premium and Google One customers. The feature started rolling out a few days back. But the gradual rollout is officially confirmed by Google now. The company notes it can take up to 15 days for the feature to become available globally.
The feature works as expected. Tap on the Gemini icon in Gmail for Android, type your prompt (or select a suggested prompt), and Gemini will hunt down the requested info for you. You can also bring it up from within an email, where the prompt suggestions you receive are also contextually more relevant to the current email.
The feature isn’t perfect, so some queries will yield the all-too-familiar ‘I can’t help with that’ message. But for finding emails that have gone unnoticed, getting email summaries, reply suggestions, etc., it works just fine.
Google notes that “in the future, it will be able to find information from your Drive as well.”
