Ever sat in a parking lot typing in an address that's already sitting in your inbox?
Gemini in Android Auto can now look it up for you.
This week Google started rolling out Personal Intelligence to Gemini in Android Auto. With your permission, Gemini can use your Gmail, Calendar, Photos, Maps, YouTube and Search while you drive.
So you can say "navigate to my doctor's appointment" and let Gemini work out where that is.
Or ask whether your flight is on time and which gate it leaves from.
(No more squinting at a confirmation email at a red light. Please.)
Right after this: who gets it, how to switch it on, and the setting to check before your passengers hear your calendar.
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Right. Back to it.
Who gets it
Android Auto, with your Android phone connected.
Personal Google accounts, 18 and over. Work and school (Workspace) accounts are left out.
Not in the European Economic Area, Switzerland, the UK or Nigeria.
Cars with Google built-in get it "in the coming months."
How to turn it on
It's off by default, and you choose which apps it can use.
If you already turned on Personal Intelligence in the Gemini app on your phone, you're set. It carries over to the car.
If not:
Open the Gemini app on your phone.
Go to settings and find Personal Intelligence.
Pick the apps it can use. Calendar and Gmail do most of the work in the car.
(Menu names can shift a little between app versions, but it lives in Gemini's settings.)
Four things to try on your next drive
"Navigate to my doctor's appointment."
"Is my flight on time, and which gate is it?"
"Navigate to my next meeting."
"What's on my calendar this afternoon?"
Start with the first two. They're the ones Google itself shows off.
The privacy bit
Google says it doesn't train its models on your personal data itself.
But what you ask and what Gemini answers can include personal details, and Google doesn't promise its filters catch all of them.
Two more things worth knowing:
It only works while your phone is connected to the car.
You can switch off personal responses in the car's Gemini settings. Worth doing before a drive with colleagues in the back seat.
To review which apps it can use, or turn the whole thing off, go back to Gemini's settings on your phone.
Make it stick
Next time you get in the car, skip the typing and ask for where you're going by name.
If it gets it wrong, you've lost five seconds. If it gets it right, that's one less address typed with the engine running.
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Talk tomorrow,
Zephyr
P.S. Try it on a drive this weekend, then hit reply: what did you ask, and did it get it right?