Customise your Gemini in Chrome experience

You can tailor different elements of Gemini in Chrome to better reflect your style, preferences and personal needs. Change the way that Gemini sounds, how you interact with it, the services that it can connect to and more.

Important: Gemini in Chrome is not available to all users at this time. We’re gradually releasing Gemini in Chrome, so it might not be available to you just yet.

• See the regions where Gemini in Chrome is available.
• Check the languages that Gemini in Chrome supports.

Use skills in Gemini in Chrome to complete tasks faster

When you find a useful AI prompt – like asking Gemini to calculate protein macros for a recipe or to compare product specifications across multiple tabs – you don't need to type it from scratch on a new page to try it again. Use Skills in Chrome to save your most helpful prompts and run them with a single click on any page that you visit.

A skill works directly with the page that you currently see. When you use a skill, Gemini in Chrome reads the content on your active tab and applies your saved instructions to it. You can also discover and remix ready-to-use skills from a built-in library.

Here are some examples:

• Protein max: Change a standard recipe by inserting high-protein substitutes wherever possible.
• Check job fit: Analyse a job description against your background and CV to help figure out if you're a good fit for the role and highlight important experiences.
• Explain simply: Translate the complicated text that you're reading using simpler terms and analogies that even a five-year-old could understand.

What you need

To use skills in Gemini in Chrome, you need to:

• Use a Chromebook Plus, Mac or Windows computer.
• Use the latest version of Chrome. Learn how to check your browser version.
• Have Gemini in Chrome turned on.
• Sign in with a personal Google Account
• Use Gemini in Chrome with your Chrome language set to English (United States).
• Be 13 years or older (or the applicable age in your country) and in a supported region.

Note: Skills are not currently available for managed or enterprise accounts unless your organisation's administrator has enabled the feature.

Skills are currently rolling out gradually. If you don't see this feature yet, you can turn it on manually:

1. Check that you're on Chrome version 147 or higher by typing chrome://version into your address bar.
2. Go to chrome://flags and search for 'Skills'. Enable the skills flag.
3. Relaunch Chrome.
4. Open the Gemini side panel and type/to confirm that skills are available.

Browse recommended skills in Gemini in Chrome

There are several skills already built into Gemini in Chrome for you to try.

1. On your computer, open Chrome.
2. At the top of your browser, click Ask Gemini .
3. In the text box, type a forward slash (/) to open the skills menu.
4. Scroll to browse available skills.
   1. Tip: Hover over a skill to learn what it will do.
5. Click to select the skill that you want.
6. Press Enter or click Send.

For an expanded list of all available skills, type chrome://skills/browse into your address bar. You can filter by skill type or search by name.

Make your own skills in Gemini in Chrome

You can also come up with your own skills to use in the future. You can add as many custom skills as you like. 

1. On your computer, open Chrome.
2. At the top of your browser, click Ask Gemini .
3. In the text box, type a forward slash (/) to open the skills menu.
4. Click Add skill +.
5. Fill in the pop-up with a name and prompt for the skill that you want to create.
6. Click Save.

If you open Gemini in Chrome and want to use that skill again, type '/' followed by the name of your custom skill.

Manage your available skills

You can make changes to the skills that you made, changing their behaviour or deleting them if no longer useful.

1. On your computer, open Chrome.
2. At the top of your browser, click Ask Gemini .
3. In the text box, type a forward slash (/) to open the skills menu.
4. At the bottom of the skills menu, click Browse skills 🧭.
5. Decide what you want to do:
   1. Change an existing skill: Click Edit 
   2. Create a new skill: At the top, click + Add.
   3. Delete a skill: At the top of the skill that you want to remove, click More > Delete.

Tips:

• To reach the Skills page directly, in your address bar, type chrome://skills/yourSkills.
• To quickly reuse a skill’s text, at the top, click More > Copy Instructions.
• In the Edit skill popup, to make your instructions more robust, click the pencil icon.

Use Connected Apps in Gemini in Chrome

Important: Only some Connected Apps are available in Gemini in Chrome. Learn about which apps Gemini in Chrome can connect to.

If you connect the Google Workspace app, Gemini in Chrome can help you get things done with Google Workspace services, like:

• Summarise your emails in Gmail
• Add items to Google Tasks
• Create events in Google Calendar

Learn more:

• About Connected Apps in Gemini Apps.
• About personalisation with Connected Apps.

Apps that Gemini in Chrome can connect to

Note: In some countries, Connected Apps do not use Personal Intelligence to tailor your answer.

Gemini in Chrome can currently connect to the following apps:

• Google Workspace, which includes:
  • Gmail
  • Google Calendar
  • Google Docs
  • Google Drive
  • Google Keep
  • Google Tasks
• Google Photos
• YouTube
• Search services

Manage your experience with Connected Apps

You can connect and disconnect apps from Gemini Apps at any time in your Connected Apps settings.

Important: You can learn more about your data and Connected Apps in the Gemini Apps Privacy Hub:

• What happens when you disconnect an app in Gemini?
• How your data is handled when you use Connected Apps in Gemini

To disconnect or connect apps:

1. On your computer, open Chrome.
2. At the top of your browser, click Ask Gemini .
3. At the top of Gemini in Chrome, click More  Settings and help Personal Intelligence Connected Apps.
4. Find the app that you want and turn it off or on .
   • This disconnects or connects an app for all Gemini Apps, including Gemini in Chrome.
   • Only some Connected Apps are available in Gemini in Chrome. Learn about which apps Gemini in Chrome can connect to.
5. Follow any on-screen instructions.

Manage Connected Apps

Services that Gemini in Chrome automatically uses

In addition to Connected Apps, Gemini in Chrome can also automatically use public information from certain Google services to provide more helpful responses to your prompts. For example, Gemini in Chrome can help you:

• Find relevant YouTube videos and answer questions that you have about the video
• Get location-based information from Google Maps

Currently, Gemini in Chrome automatically uses public information from these Google services:

• Google Search
• Google Maps
• YouTube
• Google Travel (Flights and Hotel searches)

To use public information from Google Maps and YouTube, Keep activity must be on. Gemini in Chrome can always use public information from Google Search, even if Keep activity is off.

Use Personal Intelligence with Gemini in Chrome

With their permission, eligible users with Personal Intelligence can connect their data in some Google apps to Gemini in Chrome to get new, more personalised experiences previously unavailable through Connected Apps. By combining personal content with the context of the web page, Gemini provides more personalised assistance.

• Learn more about Gemini eligibility.
• Learn more about personalisation with Connected Apps.

To use personalisation in Gemini in Chrome:

• You must be aged 18 or over and in Canada, India, New Zealand or the US.
• Set your device settings to use a supported language.
• Personalisation isn't available in Gemini Live.

Set up personalisation

Manage your personal info and preferences

At any time, you can manage how your personal info is used to tailor responses and share insights.

• To stop personalization based on your past chats, turn off Memory in Gemini settings. Learn how to manage your past Gemini chats.
• To stop using info from other apps, like Photos and Gmail, manage your Connected Apps in Gemini.

Use or customise keyboard shortcuts

After you opt in to using Gemini in Chrome, you can use keyboard shortcuts.

To open or close Gemini in Chrome:

• On Mac, press Ctrl + G
• On Windows, press Alt + G
• On ChromeOS, press Search + G

To switch between your tab and Gemini in Chrome:

• On a Mac, press Ctrl + ⌘ + G
• On Windows, press Alt + shift + G
• On ChromeOS, press Search + Alt + G

To start selection mode in Gemini in Chrome:

• On Mac, press Ctrl + shift + G
• On Windows, press Ctrl + Alt + G
• On ChromeOS, press Ctrl + shift + G

Change the keyboard shortcuts

To choose your own keyboard shortcuts:

1. At the top of Gemini in Chrome, click More options Settings and help Open Chrome settings.
2. Next to the keyboard or navigation shortcut, click Edit .
3. On your keyboard, press the new shortcut.

Change the voice used by Gemini Live

The first time that you turn on Gemini Live while using Gemini in Chrome, you'll pick a voice that's used for responses. If you want to switch to another voice later:

1. On your computer, open Chrome.
2. At the top of your browser, click Ask Gemini in Chrome .
3. In the text box, click Go Live .
   1. If necessary, click OK to confirm that you want to start using Gemini Live.
4. Change Gemini’s voice: at the top, click More options Select Voice .