You can create captivating images in seconds with Nano Banana 2. From work to play or anything in between, Gemini Apps can help you generate and refine images to help bring your imagination to life. For paid subscribers, Nano Banana Pro is also available to regenerate images.
Important: When you generate images with Gemini Apps, remember that you agreed to Google's Terms of Service, including the Prohibited Use Policy. Make sure not to violate others' copyright or privacy rights. Use your discretion before you rely on, publish or use content that Gemini Apps generate. Users with a work or school account may be subject to different terms depending on the licence type. Learn more about how to use Gemini Apps with your work or school Google Account.
What you need
- This feature's availability in any specific Gemini app is also limited to the supported languages and countries of that app.
- This feature isn't available to users under 18 (or the applicable age in your country) signed in to their personal Google Account. If you are signed in to a school account, you may be subject to different access restrictions.
To use this feature, you must be signed in to Gemini Apps. Learn how to sign in to Gemini Apps.
Key features of Nano Banana 2
- Improved world knowledge: Create diagrams and infographics with more accurate info.
- Character consistency: Maintain the look of a person or character across various generated images, including the ability to combine multiple images to blend scenes or ideas.
- Local edits: Making quick and specific changes to parts of an image.
- Better text rendering: Add text to images with more accurate spelling, for all supported languages.
- Enhanced instruction following: The model can follow more complex requests, to capture details.
- High output quality: Preview images at high resolution. Download images at at 2K resolution with a Google AI plan or at 1K without an AI plan.
Tips:
- Nano Banana 2 is ideal to create personalised images such as when you want to view yourself with different hairstyles, picture yourself in different scenes or create memes.
- If you’re in the US and meet other requirements, Nano Banana 2 can also use Personal Intelligence to create and edit images tailored entirely to you. Learn how Gemini personalises images with Personal Intelligence.
Generate and review images
In the Gemini web app
- On your Android phone or tablet, go to gemini.google.com.
- Tap Create image.
- Enter your prompt to generate an image with Nano Banana 2. Check tips for image generation prompts.
In the Gemini mobile app
- On your Android phone, open Gemini
.
- Tap Create image.
- Enter your prompt to generate an image with Nano Banana 2. Check tips for image generation prompts.
Tip: If you have Gemini set as your primary mobile assistant, you can activate Gemini to generate images through 'Hey Google'. Learn how to chat in the on-screen overlay.
Examples
- Generate an image of a futuristic car driving through an old mountain road surrounded by nature
- Create an image of a dog riding a surfboard
- Create an image of a jungle with a river in a splashy watercolor style
Edit images with Nano Banana 2
Important: Editing images isn't available to users under 18.
With Nano Banana 2, there are a few ways that you can edit images. For example, you can:
- Edit an image that you generated in Gemini Apps.
- Upload an image and ask Gemini to make edits.
- Upload multiple images and ask Gemini to create a new image based on your uploaded images.
- Go to gemini.google.com or open the Gemini mobile app
- In the text box at the bottom, enter your prompt.
- Tip: You can upload an image to edit or ask Gemini to edit a generated image.
- Click Submit
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Redo an image with Nano Banana Pro
Paid subscribers can use Nano Banana Pro to regenerate an image. To use Nano Banana Pro:
- Create an image with Nano Banana 2.
- At the bottom right, tap More
Redo with Pro.
Redo with Pro.Connect Google Photos to edit and transform photos
Important: This feature is only available to users aged 18 and over in the US, although it isn't available in some regions of the US. You must be signed in to your personal Google Account and subscribed to a Google AI plan to use it.
To use Nano Banana to edit and transform your photos, you can connect Google Photos to Gemini Apps to easily access your photos. To connect Google Photos:
- On your phone or tablet, open the Gemini mobile app
- At the top, tap your profile picture or initial
- Turn on Google Photos
.
- Follow the on-screen instructions.
. - On your phone or tablet, go to gemini.google.com.
- At the top, tap Menu
Settings and help
- Turn on Google Photos
- Follow the on-screen instructions.
Settings and help 
Download, share or export a generated image
To download or share an image:
- In the Gemini web app: Hover over the image that you want to download and at the top, tap Download full size
.
- In the Gemini mobile app: Touch and hold the image that you want to download.
- To download the image, tap Save. This will download the image to your device.
- To share the image, tap Share. This will create a public link to the image.
Tip: You can also share the entire conversation with your image. Learn how to share a chat from Gemini Apps.
To export to a doc:
- Tap More
.
- Tap Export to Docs
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- Open the new Doc.
Important: Users aged under 18 on a school account won’t be able to export to Docs.
Tips for image generation prompts
- Start your prompt with words like draw, generate and create.
- Describe the image style that you want. Here are a few examples: photorealistic, charcoal drawing, watercolour painting, cartoon illustration.
- Include a detailed visual description of what you want in the image. This can include the subject of the image, what the subject is doing and the background or setting.
How image generation works with Personal Intelligence
You can ask Gemini to create or edit highly personalised images using Personal Intelligence. With your permission, Gemini can understand and retrieve info from across your Google apps, past chats and more to understand your unique style, life and preferences. It then uses the latest Nano Banana model to create and edit images that are tailored entirely to you.
Try these example prompts:
- Create a watercolour image of my dream house nestled in my favourite setting.
- Create a claymation image of me and my family enjoying our favourite activity. We want to be standing in the centre of the image, staring straight ahead.
- This example requires the connected Google Photos app to be turned on. Learn how to use and manage connected apps in Gemini.
Gemini can use the labels that you’ve set up in Google Photos to identify people and pets to generate images of them with Nano Banana.
Tip: To create images of other people from your Google Photos, make sure that their face group is named. Learn how to set up and manage your face groups.
Personal Intelligence experiences are optional. You can choose which Google apps to connect, manage how your past chats are used and set your own instructions. Learn how to manage Personal Intelligence in Gemini Apps.
Why Gemini Apps might remove an image
Gemini Apps may remove images for prompts when our systems detect a possible violation of Google's Terms of Service, including the Prohibited Use Policy.
Users with a work or school account may be subject to different terms. Learn more about how to use Gemini Apps with your work or school Google Account.