The “Utilities” Gemini Extension has been rolling out over the previous few weeks, and it’s now seeing wider availability within the Android app.
With this Utilities Extension, the Gemini app will cease utilizing the Google Assistant fallback for fundamental duties, like turning on the flashlight. To ensure it’s accessible, launch the Gemini app > open multitasking and faucet the icon for App information > Force cease the Google app.
Before vs. after
Afterwards, Utilities ought to seem within the Gemini Extensions checklist close to the underside. It’s enabled by default. Notably, you possibly can ask Gemini to do the next out of your lockscreen:
- Set and silence alarms
- Set and cease timers
- Turn the next options on or off: Flashlight, Bluetooth, Do Not Disturb, and Battery Saver
- Check your gadget’s quantity and battery degree
- Power off or restart your gadget
- Take a photograph and screenshot
- Control media, like pause or replay a video
This additionally allows the flexibility to have Gemini get data out of Pixel Screenshots.
The full checklist of all the pieces that Gemini Utilities Extension can do (with instance prompts) is beneath:
Request a number of actions without delay
You can ask the Gemini cellular app to carry out a number of actions in a single immediate.
- Turn my media quantity and notification quantity to [percentage] and activate battery saver.
- Take a photograph with a 10s timer
Open web sites, apps & settings
You can ask the Gemini cellular app to open an internet site, your apps, and settings menus.
- Open [URL name]
- Open [app name]
- Open [name of settings] settings
Check & management your gadget options
You can ask the Gemini cellular app to do the next actions in your gadget:
- Turn [on, off] flashlight
- Turn [on, off] battery saver
- Tell me the quantity
- Volume [percentage]
- Turn [up, down] quantity
- Decrease brightness to [percentage]
- What’s my battery degree?
- Power off gadget
- Restart my gadget
Take pictures & screenshots
You can ask the Gemini cellular app to take a photograph or screenshot.
- Take a selfie
- Take an image in [seconds]
- Take a screenshot
Control your media playback
You can ask the Gemini cellular app to regulate media playback in your gadget.
- Pause
- Pause the [music, video]
- Stop the [music, video]
- Resume
- Continue taking part in
- Replay
- Restart [music, video]
- Skip
- Next
- Next [song, video]
- Previous
- Play earlier
- Give this [song, video] a thumbs up
Browse or seek for screenshots in Pixel Screenshots
You can ask the Gemini cellular app to discover a screenshot for you within the Pixel Screenshots app.
- Search for [item, object, content type] in Pixel Screenshots
- Show me my [collection name] in Pixel Screenshots
- Check Pixel Screenshots. [your query].
Set & handle alarms & timers in your clock app
If the Clock app by Google is enabled in your gadget, the Gemini cellular app makes use of it over every other clock app.
For third-party clock apps, the Gemini cellular app can solely set alarms and timers. Other actions aren’t supported.
Set & handle alarms & timers primarily based in your dialog
- Set an alarm so I can get up for [event, activity].
- I must give attention to [activity, task] for [length of time]. Set a timer for this.
- Show my alarms.
- After Gemini’s response: Delete the [time] alarm.
- When does [activity, event] begin?
- After Gemini’s response: Set an alarm for [hours] hours earlier.
Set & handle your alarms
- Set alarm at [time]
- Set alarm in [minutes]
- Change [alarm name] alarm to [time]
- When is my subsequent alarm?
- Show my alarms
- Snooze alarm
- Stop
- Cancel [time] alarm for [day]
- Remove all my alarms
- Delete [time, alarm name] alarm
Set & handle your timers
- Set alarm at [time]
- Set alarm in [minutes]
- Change [alarm name] alarm to [time]
- When is my subsequent alarm?
- Show my alarms
- Snooze alarm
- Stop
- Cancel [time] alarm for [day]
- Remove all my alarms
- Delete [time, alarm name] alarm
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