Gemini app’s integration with Google Photos

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Google says Gemini can even look at photos from a recent trip and subsequently create an itinerary. Last month, Google renamed Gemini Extensions and previewed an upcoming Google Photos “app,” with more details on how it works now available. Besides @Google Photos, you can include “my photos” in your prompt to invoke the new integration. It lets you “search for a specific memory or recall information directly from your photo gallery with the Google Photos app in the Gemini mobile app” on Android and iOS. Following are the some of the important points:-

Gemini will soon be able to connect with Google Photos to offer more advanced queries.

Integration will be restricted to US Ask Photos users only as of now.

Also includes the ability to ask when your driver’s license expires or to create a travel itinerary based on photos from a recent trip.

Google has announced a host of Gemini additions and improvements, covering everything from smarter Deep Research to the ability to harness your search history. However, it also revealed that its chatbot will soon connect to Google Photos. Gemini will be able to connect with Google Photos in the “coming weeks,” allowing you to make various queries about your images. “For example, Gemini can look at photos from your recent trip and create a travel itinerary based on the places you visited, or you can ask Gemini to recall information, like when your driver’s license expires,” the search giant explained. The company also added that Photos (along with Calendar, Notes, and Tasks) now has access to the experimental 2.0 Flash Thinking AI model. The first aspect lets you find photos and videos based on:-

Description of what’s in the photo

Your face groups or relationships you’ve saved in Photos

Your current conversation with the Gemini mobile app

Location or date the photo was taken

The company currently offers a Gemini-powered Ask Photos feature to some testers. This allows you to ask about topics such as the first photo in your library, expiration dates for vouchers, all the places you visited in the past year and photos of yourself over a given time period. Nevertheless, this latest news means you’re getting support for more advanced queries and cross-app integration. Example prompts include:- 

Find my photos of landscapes

Find my photos of Alex

Show me recent selfies

Show my photos from my most recent trip

Show my photos from last summer

Meanwhile, you can “for important details found in your photos” with prompts like:-

@Google Photos what did we eat at the hotel during summer vacations?

@Google Photos what were some of the things we ate in Mexico City?

@Google Photos what’s my driver’s license number?

@Google Photos what are the top 10 things we saw on our last trip?

@Google Photos what themes have we had for Tera’s birthday parties?

This is exactly like the Ask Photos integration which entered testing last year.

If Gemini’s response includes photos retrieved from Google Photos, the share or export features only work with the text portion of the response and photos aren’t included. Tapping an image or album result opens Google Photos, while you can “drag and drop a photo from the Gemini on-screen overlay into another app” (on Android). In terms of availability, Google is “releasing this feature gradually to a select group of invited users.” This new integration will initially be restricted to English US users of the Ask Photos feature. This is not for you, if you’re in another country or if English isn’t your preferred language.