Gemini Now Pulls Context From Your Google Apps — If You Choose to Enable It

Google has begun rolling out a significant upgrade to its Gemini AI assistant called Personal Intelligence, allowing the chatbot to pull context from across your Google apps — such as Gmail, Google Photos, YouTube, Search history and more — if you explicitly enable it.

This new feature is opt-in and turned off by default; users choose which apps Gemini can access, with controls for enabling, disabling or disconnecting individual services. Once activated, Gemini can draw on relevant information from linked apps to tailor answers more accurately. For example, it might combine details from emails, past search history and travel photos to help with trip planning or product suggestions — all within the same conversation.

Google emphasizes privacy, saying the AI does not train directly on your personal content like email bodies or photo libraries. Instead, it uses your prompts and responses, and users can request responses without personalization or delete chat history at any time.

Personal Intelligence is initially available in the United States to AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers on personal Google accounts, with plans for expansion to free users and more regions in the future.

The move deepens Gemini’s integration into Google’s ecosystem and aims to make interactions feel more intuitive and context-aware — though Google warns the technology isn’t perfect and may sometimes over-generalize or draw incorrect associations.