Personal Intelligence from Gemini

What is Personal Intelligence from Gemini?

Personal Intelligence from Gemini is an optional Gemini experience designed to provide more relevant, tailored help by connecting Gemini to your Google apps and to your chat history preferences. It’s meant to support personal tasks such as vacation planning and project preparation, using context from across connected Google sources.

With Personal Intelligence enabled, Gemini can incorporate information from apps like Gmail, Photos, Search, and YouTube, along with your prior chat history and custom instructions you choose to provide. You decide which apps to connect and you can manage personalization settings at any time.

Key Features

• Connect eligible Google apps (such as Gmail, Photos, Search, and YouTube) so Gemini can use that context when responding to your prompts.
• Personalization controls for selecting connected apps and managing personalization settings, including whether and how personalization uses past chat information.
• Context-aware chat behavior that can consider past chats to help you continue prior topics or request a summary.
• Chat history visibility and management, including the ability to view or delete chats you’ve had with Gemini.
• Google Photos integration to bring your photos (and your loved ones) into new scenes and artistic styles without manual uploads, when you connect Photos.
• Retrieval of additional context and preferences to make responses more specific (for example, recalling interests and preferences like work, hobbies, or life goals).

How to Use Personal Intelligence from Gemini

1. Enable Personal Intelligence (available via beta rollout to eligible users) and review which Google apps you want to connect.
2. In Gemini settings, manage your personalization settings and confirm how past chat history is used for personalization.
3. Start a conversation in Gemini and provide prompts for tasks like planning a trip or drafting a project plan.
4. If you continue work from an earlier conversation, ask Gemini to pick up where you left off or to summarize a previous topic.
5. Review connected-source references when available, and ask Gemini for more information if it does not clearly explain what it used.

Use Cases

• Trip planning with preferences: Ask Gemini to build a trip tuned to your tastes and past picks, including recommendations for places to eat and neighborhoods to explore.
• Project plan drafting: Provide a project goal and relevant constraints, then ask Gemini to translate your prompt into a structured plan using context it can access from connected sources.
• Continue an ongoing thread: When you return to a prior topic, ask Gemini to continue based on earlier chats or summarize what’s already been decided.
• Reading and recommendation refinement: Ask for book recommendations tailored to your reading history and what you’ve indicated you like.
• Photos-based creative exploration: Connect Google Photos and ask Gemini to generate new scenes or artistic styles using your photos without manually uploading content.

FAQ

What is Personal Intelligence in Gemini and how does it work?
Personal Intelligence provides more relevant, personalized Gemini responses by analyzing your prompt alongside your context. It can consider your custom instructions, past chats, and information from connected Google apps (when enabled) to tailor responses.

Who can use Personal Intelligence, and where is it available?
It is rolling out as a beta to eligible users globally, except for South Korea, Australia, the European Economic Area, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and Nigeria. You must be over 18 and it’s for personal Google accounts (not Workspace business, enterprise, or education users).

Which devices and Gemini models does it work with?
Once enabled, it works across Web, Android, and iOS. It works with all models currently available in the Gemini model picker.

Which Google apps can connect to Personal Intelligence?
The experience connects with Google apps such as Gmail, Photos, Search, and YouTube. The page notes more app integrations may be added in the coming months with permission.

How does privacy and transparency work?
Personal Intelligence is optional and you can opt in or out, choose which apps to connect, and manage settings for how past chats are used. Gemini aims to reference or explain information it used from connected sources so you can verify it; if it doesn’t, you can ask it for more information.

Alternatives

• Use Gemini without Personal Intelligence: Keep Gemini’s assistance more generic by not connecting apps or using past chat history for personalization.
• General productivity planning tools: For structured plans (projects, itineraries) without tying into personal Google data, use stand-alone planners or document-based workflows.
• Email/search-based planning workflows: Rely on manual searching through Gmail and Search to gather context, then paste or summarize that information into Gemini for responses without app-level connections.
• Photo-centric creativity tools: If your primary goal is creative edits based on images, consider photo editing or creative generation tools that don’t depend on a chat assistant connecting to your Google Photos library.