14 Features You Shouldn’t Miss

Our team selected the most interesting Gemini features available in both the free and paid versions, so you can decide whether the upgrade is worth it. Let’s dive into Gemini’s top features.

One of Gemini’s biggest advantages is its multimodal capabilities. While Google Assistant supports voice, text, and image inputs, Gemini takes it further by allowing users to interact with videos, code, and even generate media files like images and documents.

Gemini supports various input types, making it a versatile AI assistant:

• Text or Documents
• Images
• Video
• Audio
• Code

Additionally, Gemini Advanced can process larger and multiple files, such as entire project databases or thousands of pages of documents.

Gemini includes a text-to-image generation tool, available in both free and premium versions. However, the premium version offers enhanced capabilities, such as generating complex images, including portraits of people, using Google’s latest Imagen-3 model for improved quality and customization.

How to Generate Images in Gemini

1. Open the Gemini app on your device.
2. Enter your prompt, starting with “create,” “generate,” or “draw.”
3. Specify details, such as styles, colors, and descriptions.
4. Tap the send button and wait for the result.
5. Refine your prompt for better results and save or share the image.

Gemini can summarize long texts, emails, documents, and YouTube videos. To enable this feature, you need to activate the Google Workspace and YouTube extensions within the app.

How to summarize texts in Gemini

1. Open the Gemini app.
2. Paste or type the text or URL into the prompt box and specify with Gemini to summarize it.
3. Hit the send button and receive the summary.

How to summarize YouTube videos (with subtitles enabled)

1. Open the YouTube video.
2. Launch or summon Gemini.
3. Type or speak, “Summarize this video.”

The “Ask About PDF” feature works similarly to “Ask About Screen” but focuses on PDF documents. You can summarize, extract text, or search for specific data within a file. This feature is ideal for quickly extracting key information from lengthy documents.

How to Use Ask About PDF

1. Launch the Google Files app.
2. Open a PDF document.
3. Launch Gemini via gesture and then tap Ask about PDF.
4. Wait until the file is uploaded.
5. Enter your request and then tap send.

Gemini integrates seamlessly with Google apps, making task management easier. For example, it can extract flight details from Gmail and add them as events in Google Calendar.

How to Use Gemini for Calendar Events

1. Ask Gemini to pull flight details or schedules from Gmail.
2. Add or modify events directly in Google Calendar by tapping Continue in Calendar.

Gemini can also detect dates within emails, which are presently available on the web, allowing you to quickly add them to your calendar.

Gemini can analyze data from spreadsheets and slides and then ask it to visualize the trend or data from the file. Beyond visualization, Gemini can offer contextual insights and identify patterns and correlations.

How to create visual graphs and charts using Gemini

1. Launch Gemini.
2. Tap on the + button and select Files.
3. Upload your spreadsheet (Excel, Sheets, or CSV).
4. Start your prompt with “visualize” or “create charts or bar graphs from the data.”

Gemini carries over Google Assistant’s lock screen capabilities like setting an alarm or calendar event, reading notifications or answering calls, allowing users to perform tasks without unlocking their device.

How to Enable Gemini on the Lock Screen

1. Open the Gemini app.
2. Tap on your profile picture.
3. Go to Settings > Gemini on Lock Screen.
4. Enable Use Gemini without unlocking.
5. Toggle Make calls and send messages without unlocking.

Like Google Assistant, Gemini can control smart home devices via the Google Home app. You can issue natural language commands, such as:

• “It’s hot in the living room, turn on the AC.”
• “Dim the bedroom lights to 50%.”

How to Enable Smart Home Control

1. Open the Gemini app.
2. Tap your profile picture > Apps.
3. Scroll down and enable Device Control.
4. Select Google Home and Utilities.

Gemini Live offers natural, continuous conversations. The free version provides basic features, while the premium version unlocks deeper interactions, including conversation transcripts for later reference.

Deep Research is a newer model in Gemini designed to synthesize large datasets from the web and generate research reports. Users can edit plans before creation, refine reports, discuss findings, and ask follow-up questions. Deep Research is now available to all Gemini users—a useful tool for professionals and students alike.

You can use Deep Research by selecting it from the Gemini model or tapping on the Deep Research button on the web. Read the step-by-step guide below.

1. Launch Gemini.
2. Tap on the AI models on top.
3. Select Deep Research.
4. Start your prompt with “create a research report” or “make a research.”
5. Once a plan is generated, you can adjust the plan or continue creating research.

If on the web, simply select Deep Research in the prompt window.

Gemini can convert documents and PDFs into podcast-style discussions, featuring AI-generated hosts via Audio Overview.

How to Generate an Audio Overview using PDFs and files

1. Create a Deep Research report.
2. Open the Deep Research file and tap the three-dot menu.
3. Scroll to the bottom and select Generate Audio Overview.
4. Wait for the podcast to be generated.

Gemini integrates with third-party apps like Spotify and WhatsApp, allowing users to play music, send messages, and control playback with voice commands. Simply speak or write the command to Gemini and specify the app and tasks. Presently, Gemini works with select third-party apps, but could likely see more added in the future.

Unlike Google Assistant, Gemini lets you change the voice of the assistant. Users can choose male or female voices with different tones and accents via Settings > Gemini’s voice.

Gemini is Google’s next-generation AI digital assistant, designed to replace the classic Google Assistant. Available as both an integrated feature in Android and a standalone chatbot app, Gemini is powered by Google’s large language models (LLMs), making it more intelligent and capable than its predecessor.

With its multimodal capabilities, Gemini can process text, images, and voice inputs, enabling natural and conversational interactions. It also introduces new features that were not possible with the old Google Assistant.

Since its launch last year, Gemini started with a limited set of features, but Google has steadily expanded its capabilities. Today, AI is deeply integrated into Android and is set as the default assistant on many devices.

Gemini is available in multiple versions, each offering different features based on subscription plans.

• Basic (Free) Version – This version is available on all compatible Android devices and offers core AI functions.
• Premium Version (AI Premium) – Part of the Google One AI subscription, this version provides access to more powerful AI models and advanced capabilities, including complex task management, deep research, coding assistance, logical reasoning, and seamless integration with Google apps through extensions.
• Gemini Live – A conversational chatbot built into the Gemini app available to the basic and premium versions. The premium tier of Gemini Live includes enhanced features like background conversations, making it a more intelligent and responsive assistant.