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TL;DR
- Gemini’s new Utilities extension enables you to management your telephone with voice instructions. Now you can set alarms, open apps, take screenshots, and extra inside Gemini, even whereas your telephone is locked.
- The extension is rolling out broadly to Gemini customers on Android following a restricted rollout final month.
- Utilities additionally plugs into the Pixel Screenshots app for Pixel customers.
Gemini has developed effectively as an AI digital assistant, however there are nonetheless some conditions through which customers miss Google Assistant on their telephones. You’d notably miss Google Assistant in the event you relied on it rather a lot for varied telephone duties, like managing alarms and occasions, opening apps, controlling media playback, and so forth. Google started rolling out a Utilities Gemini extension final month that may assist Gemini do such duties with out counting on Google Assistant, and now the extension is rolling out broadly to many customers.
Artem Russakovskii on X (beforehand referred to as Twitter) noticed that the Utilities extension is now reside in Gemini. You possibly can spot the brand new extension within the Gemini app for Android by clicking on the profile image within the prime proper nook and tapping Extensions.
In the event you don’t see the extension right here, you possibly can attempt force-closing and restarting the Gemini app, which labored for me.
As soon as put in and activated, the Utilities extension provides a ton of performance to Gemini. Not solely can it handle a number of duties in your telephone, however now you can additionally difficulty a number of instructions to Gemini. I additionally seen that issuing corrections to Gemini is simpler than it was with Google Assistant prior to now. For Pixel customers, the Utilities extension also can plug into the Pixel Screenshots app.
In case your Gemini on lock display setting is on, the Utilities extension also can do a number of duties like set and silence alarms and timers, toggle gadget options, verify for quantity and battery ranges, energy off or restart your gadget, take a photograph or screenshot, and management media.
Right here’s a fast overview of all the pieces you are able to do with the Gemini Utilities extension:
- Set and handle alarms and timers based mostly in your dialog:
- Set an alarm in order that I can get up for [event, activity]
- I have to concentrate on [activity,task] for [length of time]. Set a timer for this
- Present my alarms/Delete the [time]alarm
- When does [activity, event] begin?/Set an alarm for [hours] hours earlier
- Set and handle 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 and handle timers:
- Set timer for [length of time]
- Add one other timer for [length of time]
- Change the timer’s identify to [new name]
- Add [length of time] to this timer
- How a lot time is left on my timer?
- Present my timers
- Pause my timer
- Resume my timer
- Unpause my timer
- Reset timer
- Restart my timer
- Cease
- Delete the timer
- Request 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 10-second timer
- Open web sites, apps, and settings:
- Open [URL name]
- Open [app name]
- Open [name of settings] settings
- Verify and management gadget options:
- Flip [on, off] torch
- Flip [on, off] Battery Saver
- Inform me the quantity
- Quantity [percentage]
- Flip [up, down] quantity
- Lower brightness to [percentage]
- What’s my battery stage?
- Energy off gadget
- Restart my gadget
- Take pictures and screenshots:
- Take a selfie
- Take an image in [seconds]
- Take a screenshot
- Management media playback:
- 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
- Pixel Screenshots app on Google Pixel gadgets:
- Seek for [item, object, content type] in Pixel Screenshots
- Present me my [collection name] in Pixel Screenshots
- Verify Pixel Screenshots [your query].
Google notes that the Utilities extension at the moment works solely with English prompts. Even with the Utilities extension, Gemini can’t do a couple of issues, like toggling closed captioning, altering the language for media, discovering and opening particular pages on a web site, utilizing Discover My Gadget, and altering Gemini’s language.
The rollout for the Utilities extension earlier final month was fairly restricted, so customers, particularly those that miss Google Assistant, would tremendously respect a wider rollout.
Have you ever tried out the brand new Utilities extension in Gemini? How was your expertise? Tell us within the feedback under!
