You can now personalize Gemini by connecting Google apps with a single tap. Launching as a beta in the U.S., this marks Google’s next step toward making Gemini more personal, proactive and powerful. What Personal Intelligence does is very simple. It securely connects information from apps like Gmail and Google Photos to make Gemini uniquely helpful. If you turn it on, you control exactly which apps to link, and each one supercharges the experience. It connects Gmail, Photos, YouTube and Search in a single tap, the setup is simple and secure.
Personal Intelligence has two core strengths, that is reasoning across complex sources and retrieving specific details from various sources such as an email or photo to answer your question. It often combines these, working across text, photos and video to provide uniquely tailored answers.
Google says that it has built Personal Intelligence with privacy at the center. Connecting your apps is off by default: you choose to turn it on, decide exactly which apps to connect, and can turn it off anytime.
When enabled, Gemini accesses your data to answer your specific requests and to do things for you. And because this data already lives at Google securely, you don’t have to send sensitive data elsewhere to start personalizing your experience. This according to Google is a key differentiator.
Google has also fixed guardrails for sensitive topics. Gemini aims to avoid making proactive assumptions about sensitive data like your health, though it will discuss this data with you if you ask. The goal is to improve your experience while keeping your data secure and under your control.
Built with privacy in mind, Gemini doesn’t train directly on your Gmail inbox or Google Photos library. It trains on limited info, like specific prompts in Gemini and the model’s responses, to improve functionality over time. At any time, you can adjust settings, disconnect Google apps, or delete your chat history.
How to get Personal Intelligence with Connected Apps
The access is rolling out over the next week to eligible Google AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers in USA. Once enabled, it works across Web, Android and iOS and with all of the models in the Gemini model picker.
Google is starting with this limited group to learn, but will over the time expand to more countries and to the free tier. It’s also coming to AI Mode in Search soon. This beta feature is available for personal Google accounts and not for Workspace business, enterprise or education users.
If you don’t see an invitation to try it on the home screen of Gemini, you can turn it on in Settings with these simple how to steps:
Open Gemini and tap Settings > Tap Personal Intelligence > Select Connected Apps (Gmail, Photos, etc.).
Further Google has invited comments and suggestions for improvement post use.
