Final month, Gemini Live camera and screen sharing grew to become accessible on Pixel telephones as a part of Google’s April feature drop. However as we speak, at Google I/O 2025, the corporate introduced that it is bringing that functionality to all suitable Android and iOS units as a part of a free replace.
Obtainable contained in the Gemini app, the flexibility to share your cellphone’s digital camera or content material out of your display screen with Google’s AI is supposed to make it simpler and extra pure to get solutions about complicated subjects. For instance, as a substitute of describing a state of affairs solely utilizing your voice, you might merely level your handset’s digital camera at one thing whereas Gemini makes use of object recognition to research the scene and do issues like determine a specific species of animal or inform you need type of screw or bolt you may must carry out a restore.
Whereas Google would not have a concrete timeline for when these options will land in your gadget, the corporate says that “within the coming weeks,” Gemini Stay will get deeper integration with a few of its different apps together with Google Maps, Calendar, Duties, Hold and extra. The thought is that once you ask a query, Gemini may have extra pertinent information to drag from so it might probably provide you with extra related and helpful replies. Fortunately, for anybody involved about information privateness, Google says these app connections could be simply managed contained in the Gemini app and that customers can regulate their settings at any time.
With Google’s continued push into AI and the enlargement of Gemini’s talents, it was solely a matter of time earlier than digital camera and display screen sharing arrived on non-Pixel units. That stated, with the characteristic having simply develop into accessible on first-party telephones final month, it is good to see that there will not be an enormous look forward to extra people to get entry to those options.
