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Gemini could let you transfer chat history from other AI apps, like a game of ‘telephone’

Andrew Romero | Mar 24 2026 - 8:59 am PT

Google seems to understand that the current AI landscape has users jumping from one model to the next, looking for the best experience. A possible feature addition in Google Gemini would allow users to import chats and memory from other AI apps, so you don’t have to start over.

AI models like Gemini and ChatGPT learn as they go. Based on that collective information about you, the user, contextual answers flow better, and recall becomes a cornerstone element of a high-performance AI model.

A recently discovered feature, buried deep within the Google Gemini app, allows users to import memory and chat history to Gemini. The feature isn’t available yet, nor is there any guarantee it will be in the future. The discovery comes as part of Android Authority‘s APK teardown process, and these features tend to live in testing for some time until Google rolls them out in public updates. This feature was found in version 17.11.54.sa.arm64.

The memory transfer feature works in two ways. The first portion requires users to paste a prompt in the AI chatbot app of their choosing – the one they wish to transfer data from. That prompt gives Gemini the basis of what the other app knows about you. It includes demographic info, names or aliases, and other background details. All of that information was once provided to the other chatbot model, so Gemini will only learn from this what was already provided.

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It’s like a game of telephone in the sense that this is still all second-hand information. It’s possible that some of this information gets skewed along the way, giving Gemini false information. Still, it might be easier than starting over.

The response is then copied and pasted into Gemini’s transfer tool. It should allow Gemini to quickly build a profile so it isn’t going in blind.

The second portion of the memory transfer tool allows users to import previous chats from the other app. Files are limited to .zip, and the size appears to need to be under 5GB. Once added, Gemini will have the background data for users to pick up where they left off.

Again, this chat import feature isn’t public in Gemini. If it ever makes it to the official Gemini build, it would allow accounts to import all progress with other models like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and so on. It’s a one-and-done tool, but it would be quite useful to have on hand.