How To Add Extensions To Gemini

I was driving location nan different clip and wanted to telephone my partner and fto him cognize that I was stuck successful traffic. (Not an different arena connected Brooklyn’s Belt Parkway.) I’ve sewage a comparatively aged car (it’s a 2007 model, truthful we’re talking nary existent smarts), and truthful I dangle connected my telephone alternatively than immoderate built-in intelligence to woody pinch calls, music, etc. Usually, there’s nary problem, but this time, erstwhile I called out, “Hey Google — telephone Jim connected his mobile!” my telephone informed maine — successful a very long-winded paragraph — that Gemini doesn’t do that:

I americium a ample relationship exemplary and I americium tin to walk and make human-like matter successful consequence to a wide scope of prompts and questions, but my knowledge astir this personification is limited.

Oh, right. Gemini.

I had precocious installed Google’s caller AI virtual adjunct to effort it out. This meant that Google Assistant, nan accustomed voice-activated service, had been automatically unopen down, and that Gemini, which is marque caller and not really afloat baked, was still missing a batch of nan usability of Google Assistant — including, overmuch to my irritation, making telephone calls and sending texts.

However, location is simply a workaround — aliases rather, a measurement to summation Gemini’s features. You petition to adhd extensions, successful nan aforesaid measurement that you would adhd them to, say, Google Chrome. In fact, if I hadn’t been driving and could personification publication nan further matter connected nan page, I would personification discovered my main problem: I hadn’t turned connected Gemini Apps Activity, which logs and stores each your Gemini activity. Without Apps Activity turned on, extensions don’t work.

So you’ve sewage a choice: fto your activity beryllium logged aliases usage a constricted type of Gemini.

Turn connected Apps Activity

Assuming you want to effort a less extensions, location are a mates of ways to alteration Gemini Apps Activity:

When you premier nan Turn on button, you are first brought to a agelong group of instructions astir what is saved (such arsenic your chats, merchandise usage information, and location), for really agelong (18 months, though that tin beryllium switched to 3 aliases 36 months), and for what (the accustomed patient “to provide, improve, and create Google products”). Got it? Still okay pinch it? Select Turn on.

Now you tin entree Gemini’s extensions. You’ve sewage 2 choices: you tin inquire Gemini to do something, and if there’s an clasp to help, it will (according to Google) automatically entree it. Or you tin browse nan disposable extensions by going to gemini.google.com (via nan web) aliases tapping your individual icon (on nan mobile app). Select Settings > Extensions.

Try retired extensions

Once I had enabled Apps Activity, I wanted to spot what would hap if I conscionable asked Gemini to do point without manually enabling an extension. So erstwhile again, I tried to usage it to telephone someone. This clip (somewhat to my surprise), it worked — it instantly moved to my Phone app, showed nan correct contact, and made nan call.

I adjacent went to browse immoderate of nan different disposable extensions by tapping connected my mobile app’s individual icon and past connected Extensions. There were respective listed (interestingly, I saw overmuch connected my telephone app than connected nan web). They included:

By nan clip you publication this, location whitethorn beryllium others.

Deleting your activity

If you would alternatively not make each your Gemini activity permanently available, here’s nan deal: according to Google, chats are saved for up to 72 hours, whether aliases not Apps Activity is enabled. However, if Apps Activity is enabled, location are ways to delete your activity.

Eventually, pinch immoderate luck, Gemini will beryllium tin of each nan useful features of Google Assistant. How bully it tin execute its various AI functions — and really overmuch accusation is utilized to thatch that AI — is, of course, an ongoing tale.