Google today introduced Personal Intelligence for Gemini. This is an opt-in feature. If you turn it on, it securely connects information from apps like Gmail, YouTube, Google Search, and Google Photos, which Gemini can then use in its conversations with you. This is rolling out over the next week to eligible Google AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers in the US. It works across the web, Android, and iOS.
If you are in the US you can see if you’ve got it by going to the Gemini app or website, then to Settings > Personal Intelligence. That’s where you can select which apps you want connected to Gemini.
Personal Intelligence’s main strength is retrieving specific details from your personal items like emails and photos to answer your questions. It works across text, photos, and video to provide “uniquely tailored answers”, Google says.
When you enable Personal Intelligence, Gemini accesses your data to answer your specific requests and to do things for you, but because this data “already lives at Google securely, you don’t have to send sensitive data elsewhere to start personalizing your experience”.
You can use temporary chats to have a conversation with Gemini without personalization. Gemini “aims” to avoid making proactive assumptions about sensitive data like your health, “though it will discuss this data with you if you ask”.
Google promises that Gemini won’t be trained “directly” on your Gmail inbox or Google Photos library. It will be trained “on limited info, like specific prompts in Gemini and the model’s responses, to improve functionality over time”.
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