21 hours Ago By Abner Li
Last month, Google renamed Gemini Extensions and previewed an upcoming Google Photos “app,” with more details on how it works now available. Besides @Google Photos, you can include “my photos” in your prompt to invoke the new integration. It lets you “search for a specific memory or recall information directly from your photo gallery with the Google Photos app in the Gemini mobile app” on Android and iOS.
The first aspect lets you find photos and videos based on: Your face groups or relationships you’ve saved in Photos Location or date the photo was taken Description of what’s in the photo Your current conversation with the Gemini mobile app Example prompts include: Find my photos of Alex Show my photos from last summer Show me recent selfies Show my photos from my most recent trip Find my photos of landscapes Meanwhile, you can “for important details found in your photos” with prompts like: @Google Photos what themes have we had for Lena’s birthday parties? @Google Photos what did we eat at the hotel in Stanly? @Google Photos what were some of the things we ate in Mexico City? @Google Photos what are the top 10 things we saw on our last trip? @Google Photos what’s my driver’s license number? This is exactly like the Ask Photos integration that entered testing last year. Tapping an image or album result opens Google Photos, while you can “drag and drop a photo from the Gemini on-screen overlay into another app” (on Android). If Gemini’s response includes photos retrieved from Google Photos, the share or export features only work with the text portion of the response and photos aren’t included.
In terms of availability, Google is “releasing this feature gradually to a select group of invited users.” (That invite might refer to the Ask Photos waitlist.) We’re not yet seeing it live on accounts we checked today.
More on Google Photos: Gemini app gets new boss as it enters ‘chapter 2’ Yes, the Gemini icon is now bigger and brighter on Android Gemini Live camera, screen sharing will work on ‘any Android device’.
