Google is adding a new feature called Personal Intelligence to its Gemini AI. This feature aims to make Gemini’s answers more useful by using personal information from certain Google apps. If users approve, Gemini can access data from Gmail, Google Photos, YouTube, and search history to help answer questions and plan. Google says the goal is to help you daily with tasks like finding information or planning activities while letting users control how their data is used.
Personal Intelligence: What Is It?
With Personal Intelligence, users can link specific Google Ads to Gemini. After linking, Gemini leverages details from emails, photos, or past searches to deliver answers. For example, instead of searching your inbox or photos manually, Gemini records the information for you when prompted. Google states that the feature remains off by default, and users can choose which apps to link, disconnect them at any time, or disable personalization for any check.
Personal Intelligence: How It Works
Google states Personal Intelligence performs two core functions. It interprets data from multiple sources. It retrieves specific details from emails or images to answer queries. By integrating text, images, and videos, it tailors responses to better match user needs.
Google illustrated the feature in action: Gemini helped a user identify their car’s tire size by checking prior data, then suggested options from travel photos, including ratings and prices.
Google says this feature is useful for daily tasks like planning trips, shopping, or recording details you might not remember right away. However, the company admits the system may struggle with subtle or changing personal situations, such as shifting interests or relationships.
Privacy and Data Controls
Google says privacy remains a key part of how Personal Intelligence works. The company says Gemini does not print directly to users’ email inboxes, Gmail, or photo libraries. Instead, it uses that data only to answer specific requests on this blog. In its blog, Google explained that training uses limited information, such as prompts and responses, and that personal details are removed or hidden first.
Gemini shows or explains where its answers came from, so users can check the information. If something looks wrong, users can correct it or ask for more details. They can also turn off personalization for a chat or use a temporary chat without personal data. Google also says Gemini avoids making guesses about sensitive topics like health unless the user asks.
Availability and Rollout
Personal Intelligence will be available over the next week for Google AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers in the US. It works on the web, Android, and iOS, and supports all Gemini models in the modern figure. Google says it will also be added to AI mode in Search soon. The company plans to expand to more countries and free users later, but there is no set timeline for these. The feature is not available for Workspace or educational accounts and will not work with those account types at this time.
- Open the Gemini app.
- Tap on settings.
- Select Personal Intelligence, a tool that lets Gemini use information you allow from other Google services to answer questions.
- Choose which connector apps apps that link and share your data, like Gmail or Google Photos you want Gemini to access.
Source: Google introduces Personal Intelligence in Gemini: What is it, how it works
