Gemini Apps can interact with other Google apps and services through extensions to provide more helpful responses to your prompts. For example, Gemini Apps can help you:
- Get real-time flight and hotel booking info for customized travel planning
- Create a template to write a best man speech and find YouTube videos of funny ones for inspiration
- Get location-based information from Google Maps
- Summarize, find info, and get quick answers from your Gmail, Docs, and Drive right in Gemini Apps
What you need
To use extensions in Gemini Apps:
- Sign in with your personal Google Account that you manage on your own. Extensions, including the Google Workspace extension, are currently not available to work or school accounts. Extensions for users with the Gemini for Google Workspace add-on will be available soon.
- Have Gemini Apps Activity on. Extensions are only available when Gemini Apps Activity is turned on.
Important: For now, extensions are available in English, Japanese, and Korean only.
Use an extension
Important: Most extensions are turned on by default. You can turn off extensions at any time in your Extensions settings.
- On your computer, go to gemini.google.com.
- In the text box at the bottom, enter your question or prompt.
- Optionally, to specify a service or app for the Gemini web app to use, enter
@and select the extension. If the extension you select is off, it’ll either be turned on or the Gemini web app will ask for your permission to turn it on.
- Optionally, to specify a service or app for the Gemini web app to use, enter
- Click Submit
. If an extension is available, the Gemini web app automatically uses it.
- If needed, to give the Gemini web app permission to use the extension:
- Click Continue.
- Follow the on-screen instructions.
Examples
- Find videos of how to quickly get grape juice out of a wool rug.
- How long is the drive from Atlanta to Orlando and give me some ideas for how to keep 3 kids entertained in the car.
- Find flights to Miami for New Years. What's the usual temperature then?
- Find hotels for a 4-day trip to San Francisco for New Years Eve.
Gemini Apps can’t use extensions to perform actions in other apps or services for you, like:
- Book a flight or hotel
- Make a YouTube playlist
- Add a review to a place in Google Maps
Browse available extensions
Important: The available extensions vary by region.
- On your computer, go to gemini.google.com.
- At the top, click Extensions
.
- On your computer, go to gemini.google.com.
- At the bottom, click Settings
Extensions
Extensions Turn an extension on or off
Important: If you turn off an extension, it doesn't delete your activity related to that extension from your Gemini Apps Activity, or any data shared with and stored by other services. Learn more about how your data works with extensions.
- On your computer, go to gemini.google.com.
- At the top, click Extensions
- Find the extension and turn it off
or on
.
- Follow any on-screen instructions.
- On your computer, go to gemini.google.com.
- At the bottom, click Settings
- Find the extension and turn it off
- Follow any on-screen instructions.
Connect Google Workspace apps & services to Gemini Apps
Important: Gemini Apps can hallucinate responses or provide outdated information, like from an older email when there’s a more recent one. To check the information, click and review the sources listed after the response.
When you connect Google Workspace, you can summarize, get quick answers, and find information from apps and services like Gmail, Docs, and Drive directly in Gemini Apps.
To connect Google Workspace in a chat:
- Make sure you’re signed in to the same account you use with Google Workspace.
- Ask the Gemini web app to get information from Google Workspace.
- Tip: Don’t paste the URL of a document or email in your prompt. To reference content in Google Workspace, use keywords from the content and specify the app, service, or content type.
- If you haven’t connected Google Workspace, you’ll get the option to connect it.
- Follow the on-screen instructions.
Tip: You can also turn Google Workspace on or off in your Extensions settings.
Examples- Find information
- What dates did Erik propose in the email about the Grand Canyon hiking trip?
- Find the most recent lease agreement from my Drive and check how much the security deposit was
- Summarize a document
- Find my resume titled June 2023 from my drive and summarize it to a short paragraph personal statement
- Simplify and organize information
- Find the doc from Ashley about the neighborhood clean-up project and summarize the proposal for me in 5 bullets
- On your computer, go to gemini.google.com.
- Make sure you’re signed in to the same account you use with Google Workspace.
- At the top, click Extensions
- Turn on Google Workspace.
- Follow the on-screen instructions.
In the new Gemini web app UI
- On your computer, go to gemini.google.com.
- Make sure you’re signed in to the same account you use with Google Workspace.
- At the bottom, click Settings
- Turn on Google Workspace.
- Follow the on-screen instructions.
Extensions are only available with a personal Google Account. You can’t connect Google Workspace when you’re signed in to a Google Workspace account for school, business, or other organizations.
Required settings in Gmail might be turned off. For Gemini Apps to connect with Google Workspace, both “Smart features and personalization” settings must be turned on in your Gmail settings. If you turn them on, reload the Gemini app and try to connect again.
Learn how to change smart features and personalization settings.
Mention Gmail, Google Docs, or Google Drive in your prompt. For every new conversation, you need to ask the Gemini app to get something from your personal Google Workspace explicitly. You can mention Gmail or email, Docs or documents, and Drive or PDFs in your prompt. You don’t need to do this for follow up questions. For example:
- First prompt: Summarize my recent emails from Harper elementary school
- Next prompt: When is pajama day?
Gemini Apps can’t:
- Access attachments, comments, or images in Docs or Gmail
- Access folders, presentations, spreadsheets, pictures, and videos in your Drive
- This includes any content that isn’t in a document or PDF
- Create an email draft or delete emails in Gmail
- Create, draft, or delete spreadsheets, PDFs, documents, and presentations
- Manage content in your Drive, like create folders or move content between folders
- Count items in your Drive or tell you how much Drive storage you have
- Process and respond to large files
- Answer prompts about Slides or Sheets
- Answer prompts about images or comments in a document or pdf
How extensions work in Gemini Apps
- Gemini Apps only use extensions that are on in your Extensions settings. This includes extensions you turn on when you specify them in your prompt with an "@" mention.
- Gemini Apps check for extensions that can help it generate a more helpful response. If a Gemini app finds an extension that can help, it automatically sends information from your conversation and other relevant information to that extension. For example, Gemini Apps will send your location data to Google Maps if you ask for coffee shops near you and the Google Maps extension is on.
- Gemini Apps won’t access your personal content in other services without your permission.
- 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.
Learn more about how extensions work with your personal data.