Get personalization in Gemini Apps

You can get a personalized experience from Gemini Apps based on your past Gemini chats. You can also customize how Gemini responds to you by giving it instructions.

Important:

  • This feature is currently not available in the EEA, UK, or Switzerland
  • To use this feature, you must be signed in to the Gemini app. Learn how to sign in to Gemini Apps.
  • You'll need a personal Google Account. For now, this feature isn’t available to users with a work or school Google Account.
  • For now, this feature isn’t available for Gems or in Live chats. In a text chat, you can ask Gemini to reference a past Gemini Live conversation.

Get personalization based on your past Gemini chats

Important: This feature only works when Keep Activity is on. For now, this feature isn’t available if:

  • You’re under 18, or signed in to a work or school Google Account.
  • You’re in the European Economic Area, Switzerland, or the United Kingdom.

You can get a personalized experience from Gemini Apps based on your past chats when you select 2.5 Pro from the drop down at the top of the screen.

Turn personalization from your past Gemini chats on or off

You can change whether Gemini Apps use your past chats to personalize responses at any time.

  1. Go to gemini.google.com.
  2. At the bottom, click Settings and then Personal context.
  3. Turn "Your past chats with Gemini" off or on .

Find & delete your past Gemini chats

Add and manage your instructions for Gemini

You can customize how Gemini responds to you if you add instructions. For example, you could create instructions so that Gemini would:
  • Start responses with a short summary
  • Use bullet points for long paragraph

Add instructions for Gemini Apps

  1. Go to gemini.google.com.
  2. At the bottom, click Settings and then Personal context
  3. Under "Your instructions for Gemini," click Add +.
  4. Enter instructions you want Gemini Apps to apply to every chat.
  5. Click Submit.

Find, edit, or delete your instructions for Gemini

  1. Go to gemini.google.com.
  2. At the bottom, click Settings and then Personal context and then Your instructions for Gemini.
  3. Find the instructions you want to view, edit, or delete.
  4. Click More and then Edit or Delete .

Turn your instructions for Gemini on or off

You can change whether Gemini Apps use your instructions at any time.

  1. Go to gemini.google.com.
  2. At the bottom, click Settings and then Personal context.
  3. Turn "Your instructions for Gemini" off or on .

How to tell if Gemini used your past chats

If Gemini used past chats in a response, you'll find "Previous chats" in the "Sources and related content" at the bottom of the response. Gemini may occasionally make mistakes and display this label incorrectly.

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