With a Google AI plan, you can get personalized Gemini experiences that are uniquely helpful to you using Personal Intelligence. When you connect Google apps that work with Personal Intelligence, Gemini can:
- Personalize your experience with insights about you, your relationships, and people in your world.
- Do things for you, like make recommendations based on your preferences, or create a tailored itinerary.
- Find and summarize information from these apps. For example, you can ask “What did I search for last month?”
- Get content from Gmail and Google Photos, like photos from your last vacation.
You can control which apps are connected at any time from your Connected Apps settings.
Important: Personal Intelligence is being released gradually and may not be available to you yet.
What you need
To get Gemini with Personal Intelligence, you need to:
- Be 18 or over and in the US.
- Sign in with a personal Google Account. This feature isn’t available when you sign in to a work, school, or supervised Google Account. Learn how to sign in to Gemini Apps.
- Be subscribed to a Google AI plan. Learn how to upgrade to a Google AI plan.
- Have Keep Activity on. This feature isn’t available when this setting is off.
- Have Gemini’s language set to English. Learn how to change Gemini’s language.
To get personalized Gemini experiences based on your data in other Google apps:
- Have Web & App Activity on. Personalization in Gemini based on your Search services data isn’t available when this setting is off. Learn how to manage your Web & App Activity.
- Have YouTube History on. Personalization in Gemini based on your YouTube activity isn’t available when this setting is off. Learn how to manage your YouTube watch history and YouTube search history.
- Have Smart features in other Google products on. Gemini Apps can’t connect to Google Workspace when this setting is off. Learn how to change smart features settings.
- Meet eligibility criteria for Google Photos. Connecting Google Photos to Gemini Apps isn’t available in all regions. Before Gemini Apps can personalize your experience based on your Photos data, you’ll need to complete the following steps in Google Photos:
- Turn on Face Groups and select which face is yours. Learn how to turn on Face Groups and how to select your face group.
- Turn on Estimate missing locations if not enabled. Learn how to turn on Estimate missing locations.
Important: For now, this feature is:
- Available when you chat with Gemini in English only.
- Not available in Gemini in Google Messages or Gemini in Chrome.
- Not available for Gems, in Live chats, or with image generation.
Connect your Google apps
- On your phone or tablet, open the Gemini mobile app
or go to gemini.google.com.
- If you’re eligible, a card will show where you can opt in to Personal Intelligence in Gemini.
- Tap Get started.
- Choose which apps to connect to Gemini.
- To connect all available apps, tap Connect all.
- To choose which apps to connect, tap Choose apps.
- Or tap Don’t connect.
- Follow any on-screen instructions.
For now, only the following Google apps work with Personal Intelligence in Gemini:
- Google Workspace, which includes your content in services like Gmail, Calendar, and Drive. Learn more about the services included.
- Google Photos, which includes your photos and videos, and insights derived from these.
- Search services, which includes your saved data in services like Search, Maps and Shopping. Learn more about the services included.
- YouTube, which includes your YouTube History.
Manage your Connected Apps
Important:
- Only certain Google apps work with Personal Intelligence in Gemini.
- Learn more about what happens when you disconnect an app in Gemini.
You can change the apps that personalize your Gemini Apps experiences in your Connected Apps settings at any time.
- On your phone or tablet, open the Gemini mobile app
- At the top, tap your Profile picture or initial
Personal Intelligence
- Disconnect or connect Google Photos, Google Workspace, Search services, or YouTube.
- To disconnect an app, turn it off
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- To connect an app, turn it on
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- To disconnect an app, turn it off
- Follow any on-screen instructions.
Personal Intelligence Tip:
- To regenerate a personalized response without personalization, you can also select Try without personalization.
- Gemini Apps can still use public information from certain Google services, like Google Search and YouTube, even if the app is disconnected for Personal Intelligence. Learn more about the Google services Gemini uses public info from.
- On your phone or tablet, go to gemini.google.com.
- At the top, tap Menu
- Disconnect or connect Google Photos, Google Workspace, Search services, or YouTube.
- To disconnect an app, turn it off
- To connect an app, turn it on
- To disconnect an app, turn it off
- Follow any on-screen instructions.
Tip:
- To regenerate a personalized response without personalization, you can also select Try without personalization.
- Gemini Apps can still use public information from certain Google services, like Google Search and YouTube, even if the app is disconnected for Personal Intelligence. Learn more about the Google services Gemini uses public info from.
Delete something Gemini knows about you from a connected app
If you want to delete something that Gemini remembered about you:
- Delete all chats with this info from Gemini Apps Activity or Recent chats. Learn how to manage your Gemini Apps Activity and delete a chat from Recent chats.
- Disconnect the app with this info, so Gemini doesn’t use it again. Learn how to manage your Connected Apps.
You must complete both steps because:
- If you only disconnect the app, Gemini might still use the info if it’s in a past chat.
- If you only delete the chats, Gemini might still find the info in the connected app.
What happens when you delete data from a connected app
If you delete or update data in a connected app, like an email from Gmail or photo from Google Photos, your experience in Gemini may not be affected until days later.
How Personal Intelligence improves your Connected Apps experience
Before, Gemini was great at finding info from your apps. With Personal Intelligence:
- Gemini has access to your data from more Connected Apps like Google Workspace, Google Photos, Search services, and YouTube.
- Gemini can connect and understand your info across Connected Apps.
This allows Gemini to:
- Handle complex, multi-step requests across those apps.
- Understand the context and how your info across those apps are related.
- Provide more personalized responses based on your info from Connected Apps.
Fix a problem
I’ve previously connected the Google Workspace and Google Photos apps. Why are they now disconnected?If you’ve previously connected the Google Workspace app or the Google Photos app, your settings have been reset with the launch of Personal Intelligence with Connected Apps. If you want, you can reconnect those apps with Personal Intelligence.
If you’re eligible for Personal Intelligence in Gemini but your personalized experience or Connected Apps setting is different across Gemini Apps:
- Make sure you’re signed in to the same personal Google Account across your Gemini Apps. Learn how to sign in to Gemini Apps.
- Check that Gemini’s language is set to English. Learn how to change Gemini’s language.
Important: Personal Intelligence is being released gradually and may not be available to you yet.
If you meet the eligibility criteria but don’t get the option to opt in to Personal Intelligence, try connecting the Google Workspace and Google Photos apps in Connected Apps settings. You may have additional steps to set up and connect those apps.
- Connect the Google Workspace app and confirm Smart features in other Google products is on.
- Connect the Google Photos app and complete the setup steps, which includes turning on Face Groups and selecting which face is yours if you haven’t done so already.
If you don’t want to get personalization based on your content and info in these apps, you can disconnect them at any time in your Connected Apps settings.
How your data is handled
Learn more about how your data is handled when Gemini works with Connected Apps.