Collaborate with Gemini in Gmail

With Gemini in Gmail, you can:

  • Summarize an email thread.
  • Suggest responses to an email thread.
  • Draft an email.
  • Find information from previous emails.
  • Find information from your Google Drive files.
  • Get information about Google Calendar events.
  • Create events in Google Calendar.

Feature availability

Get started with Gemini in Gmail

An animation showing the user tapping the Gemini icon in the top right corner of their Gmail inbox in mobile. After opening Gemini, the user types "Summarize unread emails from Emily." Gemini provides a summary of unread emails from Emily in the bottom panel of the Gmail app.

  1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Gmail app .
  2. At the top right, next to the search bar, tap Gemini .
  3. At the bottom, in the panel:
    • Tap a suggested prompt.
    • At the bottom, in the prompt box, enter a prompt.
  4. Optional: To remove your history, at the top right, tap Clear history .

Tip: To avoid the loss of your history, copy a suggestion into your email. When you close and reopen the Gmail app, you lose your conversation history.

Explore Gemini in Gmail

Action

Description

Ask Gemini

Open Gemini.

Close Close

Close Gemini.

Clear history

Remove all generated text.

Copy

Copy a suggestion.

Good suggestion

Give positive feedback about a response from Gemini.

Bad suggestion

Report an issue with a response from Gemini.

Things to ask Gemini in Gmail

Summarize an email thread

You can ask for a summary from Gemini in Gmail. For example:

  • "Create a list of action items for me based on this email."
  • "Explain this email to me like I’m 5 years old."
Find information from previous emails

You can get information on reservations, flights, packages, and other emails sent to your inbox through Gemini. For example:

  • "When is my package arriving?"
  • "What time is my next flight?"
Search for certain types of emails

You can search for unread emails from a specific date range and from specific people with Gemini. It loads the results in a Gmail search. For example:

  • "Show my unread emails."
  • "Emails from [person] sent last week."
  • "Show unread emails from this week."
Get help with Gmail
  • "Where can I edit my email filters?"
  • "How can I create a label?"
Ask questions from the web

Important: To get answers from the web, make sure to include phrases like "Use Google Search" or "Using web search" in your prompt.

  • "Write a paragraph describing the weather today in Mountain View, California using web search."
  • "Help me write a paragraph explaining if lightning can strike the same place twice using only information from the web."
Get information about your events

Important: Gemini in Gmail can only give you information about events on your primary calendar.

To get information about your events, you can ask Gemini:

  • "What’s my first meeting tomorrow?"
  • "When’s the next time I’ll meet with Lori?"
Create events

Important: Gemini in Gmail can only create events on your primary calendar.

To create an event, you can ask Gemini:

  • "Schedule a lunch block for tomorrow at noon."
  • "Create a weekly run on Fridays at 8 AM."
  • "Add this to my calendar," based on an open email.

Tip: If Gemini in Gmail detects information about events in an email, an Add to calendar button appears above the email. When you tap Add to calendar, Gemini in Gmail extracts the relevant information from the email to add to your calendar. It will ask for confirmation if there are multiple events found.

Learn about Gemini feature suggestions

  • Gemini feature suggestions don’t represent Google’s views, and should not be attributed to Google.
  • Don’t rely on Gemini features as medical, legal, financial or other professional advice.
  • Gemini features may suggest inaccurate or inappropriate information. Your feedback makes Gemini more helpful and safe.
  • Enterprise end users can submit feedback about their experience using this feature. End users are informed before they submit feedback that the feedback data shouldn’t contain personal, sensitive, or confidential information.
  • Your conversations with Gemini in Gmail are not saved to Gemini Apps Activity. When you delete your Gemini in Gmail conversation history, it doesn't delete any information that is saved to your Gemini Apps Activity. Learn how to delete your Gemini Apps Activity.

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