Again in June, Google introduced Gemini’s arrival to the aspect panel in Google Docs and Gmail for Workspace customers. Amongst different issues, the brand new function enables you to ask Gemini questions on your Gmail inbox. You may request info is inside particular emails, like, “What are the projections for this quarter?” or “What’s my consumer’s telephone quantity?” and Gemini ought to dive by way of your emails to search out the related information.
Whereas the function, in concept, is a helpful utility of generative AI, it is fairly restricted. First, it solely works with sure Google Workspace clients. In case you, your work, or your faculty do not subscribe to certainly one of these plans, you will not see Gemini within the aspect panel in any respect. It was additionally a desktop unique. Even when you paid for the Workspace plan, you wanted to be in your laptop to ask Gemini about your inbox. Log into that very same Google Account on cellular, and you would be out of luck.
That is now altering. Google introduced on Thursday it’s rolling out this Gmail Q&A function to Android gadgets. Whereas that is a bummer for these of us on iPhone, Google says the function is on its option to iOS “quickly.”
The function works nearly the identical because it does on desktop: Open the Gmail app, then both faucet the black Gemini star within the high proper, or faucet the summarize this e mail possibility which will seem. You may select from three preset prompts, or kind your personal immediate within the offered textual content subject. Whether or not you select Google’s immediate or kind out a selected query, hit the ship button, and Gemini will try to satisfy that request. In keeping with Google, Gemini can scan each your inbox and your Drive, so if the data in query is saved someplace in Google storage, Gemini can attempt to discover it there, too.
Like on desktop, this function requires a Gemini Enterprise, Enterprise, Schooling, or Schooling Premium add-on for Google Workspace, or an energetic subscription to Google One AI Premium. In case you meet these {qualifications}, and nonetheless do not see the choice in your Gmail app on Android, it could take a while to succeed in your account. Google began rolling out the function on Aug. 29, and says it might take as much as 15 days for it to look on all accounts.
