When you connect Google Home to Gemini Apps, you can ask the Gemini mobile app to broadcast messages to speakers, Smart Displays, and Smart Clocks in your home. You can broadcast to a specific device, a room, or your entire home.
Important: We're gradually releasing this feature, so it might not be available to you just yet.
What you need
- An Android phone or tablet with the Gemini mobile app, including as your mobile assistant. Learn more about the Gemini mobile app.
- Google Home is currently not supported in Gemini in Google Messages or the Gemini web app.
- At least one speaker, Smart Display, or Smart Clock with Google Assistant built in.
- Gemini Apps Activity on.
- Be signed in to the Gemini mobile app with a personal Google Account. Learn how to sign in to Gemini Apps.
- For now, this feature isn’t available to users with a work or school Google Account.
- You must be signed in to the same account that you’re signed in to on your speaker, Smart Display, or Smart Clock.
Important: 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.
Broadcast a message
Important: Google Home can’t broadcast to a device with “Do Not Disturb” turned on.
- On your phone or tablet, open the Gemini mobile app
.
- Ask the Gemini mobile app to broadcast a message.
- Your prompt must start with
broadcast. You can include your message, or reply with your message in a followup prompt. - If you don’t specify a room or device to broadcast to, your message is broadcast to all supported devices in your home.
- Your smart devices will use their default voice to broadcast messages.
- Your prompt must start with
- If you haven’t connected Google Home to Gemini Apps, you’ll get the option to connect it.
- If you connect Google Home to Gemini Apps, you give Gemini permission to access and control the same homes and devices as this account in the Google Home app. This includes any homes and devices added or shared with you later.
Example prompts
- Broadcast a message.
- Broadcast I’m on my way home.
- Broadcast to the living room, it's time for homework.
- Find a recipe for gazpacho and broadcast it on the kitchen display.
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.