Gemini screen automation for Android apps has free, AI Pro usage limits
Google has started rolling out Gemini screen automation on the Galaxy S26, and this capability has usage limits like other Gemini app features.
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Google has started rolling out Gemini screen automation on the Galaxy S26, and this capability has usage limits like other Gemini app features.
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The latest Gemini overlay redesign gives you access to more of the prompt box and Tools menu anywhere on Android.
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Since launch, Gemini Live has primarily been a fullscreen experience, but Google is now rolling out a floating pill redesign on Android.
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Google is now beginning to roll out the “Past Chats” feature to free users of the Gemini app around the world.
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Google today announced Nano Banana 2 as its latest image model rolling out now to the Gemini app.
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Last October, Google announced Gemini Enterprise for business users, and the mobile apps are now available. Meanwhile, @Google Chat is now available in the Gemini app for Workspace users.
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At Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked, Google announced agentic automation capabilities for the Gemini app on the Galaxy S26, as well as the Pixel 10.
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Following music generation last week, the Gemini app is upgrading video generation with templates.
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In November, Google introduced Gemini 3 Pro in preview, with Gemini 3 Flash following a month later. Google today announced Gemini 3.1 Pro “for tasks where a simple answer isn’t enough.”
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Following text, audio overviews, images, and video, the Gemini app’s latest output is music with Lyria 3.
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Gemini for Android has rolled out tweaks to the chat page that make sharing and the overflow menu more prominent actions.
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Deep Think is Gemini’s “specialized reasoning mode,” and Google today announced a “major upgrade” to let it “solve modern challenges across science, research, and engineering.”
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Following the web earlier this week, Gemini is giving the Tools menu on Android and iOS a redesign. There are also changes to My stuff in the side panel.
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At the Super Bowl — sorry, I mean “Big Game” — this Sunday, Google is airing an ad all about the Gemini app.
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It’s been clear for a while that Google is working to let Gemini control your Android phone, and we now have some details on how this “screen automation” will work.
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As the Gemini app picks up more features, Google is improving organization of the Tools menu on the web with Experimental Labs.
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Google brought AI Plus to the US yesterday, and here’s how it upgrades usage limits in the Gemini app.
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Agentic Vision is a new capability for the Gemini 3 Flash model to make image-related tasks more accurate by “grounding answers in visual evidence.”
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While the free tier of the Gemini app allows you to be quite productive, subscribing to Google AI Pro unlocks a lot more.
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I wasn’t an early adopter of chatbots. The messaging metaphor didn’t appeal to me as someone who saw chatting as something you only do with other people.
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After coming to the web in December, NotebookLM integration is now available in the Gemini app on Android with a redesigned plus list.
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Gemini Live today is still based on 2.5 Flash, but big upgrades are coming according to the latest beta version of the Google app.
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Besides Personal Intelligence, Google this week rolled out an “Answer now” button in the Gemini app.
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A post on Google Design this week takes a look at the design and illustration of the Gemini app, with gradients playing a big role.
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