When Gemini is your mobile assistant on Android, you can ask the Gemini mobile app to do certain actions for you with the Utilities app. For example, you can ask it to manage your alarms and timers, open apps, reply to notifications, control your media, and more.
Important:
- The Utilities app is only available in the Gemini mobile app on Android mobile devices.
- To use the Utilities app, Gemini must be your primary mobile assistant. Learn how to use Gemini as your mobile assistant.
- We’re gradually releasing the Utilities app in all languages supported by the Gemini app on Android, so it might not be available to you in your language just yet.
- To use apps in Gemini, you must have Gemini Apps Activity on. If it’s on, the Utilities app is enabled by default. You can disable this app at any time on your Apps page in Gemini settings. Learn how to manage apps in Gemini.
- 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.
Set & manage alarms & timers in your clock app
Important:
- For Samsung mobile devices, the Gemini mobile app uses the Samsung Clock app.
- For other mobile devices, if the Clock app by Google is enabled on your device, the Gemini mobile app uses it over any other clock app.
- For third-party clock apps, the Gemini mobile app can only set alarms and timers. Other actions aren’t supported.
Manage & control your device with the Gemini mobile app
You can ask the Gemini mobile app to manage or control your device's apps and settings.
Special app access Browse or search for screenshots in Pixel Screenshots
Important: This feature is available in English only and with the Pixel Screenshots app installed. Learn more about the Pixel Screenshots app.
You can ask the Gemini mobile app to find a screenshot for you in the Pixel Screenshots app. For example:
- Search for [item, object, content type] in Pixel Screenshots
- Show me my [collection name] in Pixel Screenshots
- Check Pixel Screenshots. [your query].
What’s available on lock screen
If your Gemini on lock screen setting is on, you can also get Gemini’s help with the following actions when your device is locked:
- Set and silence alarms
- Set and stop timers
- Turn the following features on or off:
- Flashlight
- Bluetooth
- Do Not Disturb
- Battery Saver
- Check your device’s volume and battery level
- Power off or restart your device
- Take a photo and screenshot
- Control media, like pause or replay a video
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.