Connect your Google Photos with the Gemini mobile app

You can search for a specific memory or recall information directly from your photo gallery with the Google Photos app in the Gemini mobile app.

What you need

Android phone or tablet.
The Gemini mobile app, including as your mobile assistant. Learn more about the Gemini mobile app.
- The Google Photos app isn’t available in Gemini in Google Messages.
The Google Photos app. Get it on Google Play.
A personal Google Account that you manage on your own.
- You can’t connect Google Photos to Gemini Apps while signed in to a work or school Google Account.
Gemini Apps Activity on.
- Apps in Gemini are only available when Gemini Apps Activity is on.

Important:

We’re releasing this feature gradually to a select group of invited users. You may not have access.
For now, the Google Photos app works with prompts in English only.
For now, the Google Photos app is available only to users 18 and over and in the United States
- This feature isn’t available in all regions.
Connected apps work in the same way for both spoken and typed prompts.
- On Android mobile devices, if "Hey Google" doesn’t work, check if “Hey Google” and Voice Match are set up.

Connect Google Photos to Gemini Apps

Open the Gemini mobile app .
Make sure you’re signed in to the same account you use with Google Photos.
Ask the Gemini app to find a photo in your Google Photos library.
- Tip: Include @Google Photos or my photos in your prompt to make sure it uses the Google Photos app.
If you haven’t connected Gemini Apps to Google Photos and you’re eligible, you’ll get the option to connect it.
- Tip: If you’re eligible but haven’t opted in to Ask Photos, you’ll get the option to opt-in and set it up. Learn how to use Ask Photos.
Follow the on-screen instructions.

Ask for your photos or about them

Find photos & videos

You can find photos based on:

Your face groups or relationships you’ve saved in Photos
Location or date the photo was taken
Description of what’s in the photo
Your current conversation with the Gemini mobile app

Example prompts:

Find my photos of Alex
Show my photos from last summer
Show me recent selfies
Show my photos from my most recent trip
Find my photos of landscapes

Find info in photos

You can ask for important details found in your photos such as:

@Google Photos what themes have we had for Lena’s birthday parties?
@Google Photos what did we eat at the hotel in Stanly?
@Google Photos what were some of the things we ate in Mexico City?
@Google Photos what are the top 10 things we saw on our last trip?
@Google Photos what’s my driver’s license number?

Do more with your photos

With photos that the Gemini app gets from Google Photos, you can:

Tap a photo to open a larger version of it in Google Photos.
Tap an album to open it in Google Photos.
Drag and drop a photo from the Gemini on-screen overlay into another app.
- This feature is available on Android phones and tablets only. You can only drag and drop one image.

Important: If Gemini’s response includes photos retrieved from Google Photos, the share or export features only work with the text portion of the response and photos aren't included.

What Gemini can’t do with the Google Photos app

Edit your photos or create collages
Add labels, like names, to your photos in your Photos app
Create new albums or edit existing ones

About your data & the Google Photos app

When the Gemini mobile app uses the Google Photos app with other apps in the same conversation, information about your Google Photos content may be shared with those other apps.

For info about your data related to Gemini features in Google Photos, like Ask Photos, review the Gemini features in Photos privacy hub.

How apps work in Gemini

Gemini only connects to apps that are on your Apps page in Gemini settings. This includes apps you turn on when you specify them in your prompt with an "@" mention.
Gemini checks for apps that can help it generate a more helpful response. If Gemini finds an app that can help, it automatically sends information from your conversation and other relevant information to that app. For example, Gemini will send your location data to Google Maps if you ask for coffee shops near you and the Google Maps app is on in your Apps page in Gemini settings.
Gemini won’t access your personal content in other services without your permission. Some apps are designed to automatically work with Gemini apps.
If you directly interact with another Google service in Gemini Apps, your activity might be saved by that other service. For example, if you watch a YouTube video in a Gemini app, YouTube may:
- Collect your personal information.
- Store and use that information according to YouTube’s terms of service.
- Store your watch history in your YouTube History. Learn how to manage your YouTube watch history.
Gemini Apps can connect with third-party apps and services. When they do, Gemini Apps share information with those apps and services to fulfill your requests. That information is then used by those third-party apps and services according to their own developers' privacy policies.
If you disable the YouTube app, you can still talk Live about a video you’re viewing in the YouTube app.

Learn more about how connected apps work with your personal data.