With Gemini in Gmail, you can:
- Summarize an email thread.
- Suggest responses to an email thread.
- Draft an email.
- Find information from previous emails.
- Find information from your Google Drive files.
- Get information about Google Calendar events.
- Create events in Google Calendar.
Feature availability
- This feature is available as part of our early access testing program, Google Workspace Labs.
- To turn off Google Workspace Labs features, exit the Workspace Labs program.
- This feature is also available to users on work or school accounts through a Gemini for Google Workspace add-on, and to users on personal accounts through Google One AI Premium. Learn about Gemini features and plans.
Supported languages
You can use the Gemini in Gmail side panel in some languages. Learn more about language availability.
Get started with Gemini in Gmail
- On your Android phone or tablet, open the Gmail app
.
- At the top right, next to the search bar, tap Gemini
.
- At the bottom, in the panel:
- Tap a suggested prompt.
- At the bottom, in the prompt box, enter a prompt.
- Optional: To remove your history, at the top right, tap Clear history
.
Tip: To avoid the loss of your history, copy a suggestion into your email. When you close and reopen the Gmail app, you lose your conversation history.
Explore Gemini in Gmail
| Action | Description |
|---|---|
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Ask Gemini |
Open Gemini. |
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Close |
Close Gemini. |
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Clear history |
Remove all generated text. |
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Copy |
Copy a suggestion. |
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Good suggestion |
Give positive feedback about a response from Gemini. |
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Bad suggestion |
Report an issue with a response from Gemini. |
Insert  |
Insert generated text into your email. |
Things to ask Gemini in Gmail
Summarize an email thread- At the top of the email, or when Gemini is open, tap Summarize this email.
- You can also enter a prompt. For example:
- “Create a list of action items for me based on this email.”
- “Explain this email to me like I’m 5 years old.”
You can get information on reservations, flights, packages, and other emails sent to your inbox through Gemini. For example:
- “When is my package arriving?”
- “What time is my next flight?”
You can search for unread emails from a specific date range and from specific people with Gemini. It loads the results in a Gmail search. For example:
- “Show my unread emails.”
- “Emails from [person] sent last week.”
- “Show unread emails from this week.”
- “Where can I edit my email filters?”
- "How can I create a label?”
Important: To get answers from the web, make sure to include phrases like “Use Google Search” or “Using web search” in your prompt.
- “Write a paragraph describing the weather today in Mountain View, California using web search.”
- “Help me write a paragraph explaining if lightning can strike the same place twice using only information from the web.”
Turn off Gemini in Gmail
To turn off any of the features on Google Workspace Labs, you must exit Workspace Labs. If you exit, you will permanently lose access to all Workspace Labs features, and you won’t be able to rejoin Workspace Labs. Learn more about how to exit Workspace Labs.
Learn about Workspace Labs feature suggestions
- Workspace Labs feature suggestions don’t represent Google’s views, and should not be attributed to Google.
- Don’t rely on Workspace Labs features as medical, legal, financial, or other professional advice.
- Workspace Labs features may suggest inaccurate or inappropriate information. Your feedback makes Workspace Labs more helpful and safe.
- Don’t include personal, confidential, or sensitive information in your prompts.
- Google uses Workspace Labs data and metrics to provide, improve, and develop products, services, and machine learning technologies across Google.
- Your Workspace Labs Data may also be read, rated, annotated, and reviewed by human reviewers. Importantly, where Google uses Google-selected input (as described in the Privacy Notice) to generate output, Google will aggregate and/or pseudonymize that content and resulting output before it is viewed by human reviewers, unless it is specifically provided as part of your feedback to Google.
- Your conversations with Gemini in Gmail are not saved to Gemini Apps Activity. When you delete your Gemini in Gmail conversation history, it doesn't delete any information that is saved to your Gemini Apps Activity. Learn how to delete your Gemini Apps Activity.
- Generated images are for use only within Gmail.
- Workspace Labs generated images are designed to bring your imagination to life in Gmail, and may not represent real world situations.
How Workspace Labs data in Gmail is collected
When you use the Gemini in Gmail side panel, Google uses and stores the following data:
- Prompts you enter or select.
- Generated text and images.
- Google Workspace content that you have access to that is referenced to generate content (both Google-selected input and user-provided input).
- Your feedback on the Gemini in Gmail side panel.
To understand how this data is used, review the Google Workspace Labs Privacy Notice and Terms for Personal Accounts.