The “Utilities” Gemini Extension has been rolling out over the past 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 verify it’s out there, launch the Gemini app > open multitasking and faucet the icon for App data > Power cease the Google app.
Earlier than vs. after
Afterwards, Utilities ought to seem within the Gemini Extensions listing close to the underside. It’s enabled by default. Notably, you may ask Gemini to do the next out of your lockscreen:
- Set and silence alarms
- Set and cease timers
- Flip the next options on or off: Flashlight, Bluetooth, Do Not Disturb, and Battery Saver
- Examine your gadget’s quantity and battery stage
- Energy off or restart your gadget
- Take a photograph and screenshot
- Management media, like pause or replay a video
This additionally permits the power to have Gemini get data out of Pixel Screenshots.
The complete listing of all the pieces that Gemini Utilities Extension can do (with instance prompts) is beneath:
Request a number of actions directly
You may ask the Gemini cell app to carry out a number of actions in a single immediate.
- Flip 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 may ask the Gemini cell app to open an internet site, your apps, and settings menus.
- Open [URL name]
- Open [app name]
- Open [name of settings] settings
Examine & management your gadget options
You may ask the Gemini cell app to do the next actions in your gadget:
- Flip [on, off] flashlight
- Flip [on, off] battery saver
- Inform me the amount
- Quantity [percentage]
- Flip [up, down] quantity
- Lower brightness to [percentage]
- What’s my battery stage?
- Energy off gadget
- Restart my gadget
Take images & screenshots
You may ask the Gemini cell app to take a photograph or screenshot.
- Take a selfie
- Take an image in [seconds]
- Take a screenshot
Management your media playback
You may ask the Gemini cell app to regulate media playback in your gadget.
- Pause
- Pause the [music, video]
- Cease the [music, video]
- Resume
- Proceed taking part in
- Replay
- Restart [music, video]
- Skip
- Subsequent
- Subsequent [song, video]
- Earlier
- Play earlier
- Give this [song, video] a thumbs up
Browse or seek for screenshots in Pixel Screenshots
You may ask the Gemini cell app to discover a screenshot for you within the Pixel Screenshots app.
- Seek for [item, object, content type] in Pixel Screenshots
- Present me my [collection name] in Pixel Screenshots
- Examine 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 cell app makes use of it over every other clock app.
For third-party clock apps, the Gemini cell app can solely set alarms and timers. Different 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 have to give attention to [activity, task] for [length of time]. Set a timer for this.
- Present 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?
- Present my alarms
- Snooze alarm
- Cease
- Cancel [time] alarm for [day]
- Take away 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?
- Present my alarms
- Snooze alarm
- Cease
- Cancel [time] alarm for [day]
- Take away all my alarms
- Delete [time, alarm name] alarm
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