Gemini AI Assistant Getting a Utilities Extension to Control Smartphone Functions

Gemini AI assistant is lastly getting assist for an extension that can enable it to carry out numerous smartphone duties. Dubbed the Utilities extension, it was first introduced on the Google I/O and it may possibly management first-party apps and features resembling alarm, timer, quantity management, digicam, and extra. However, the Mountain View-based tech big is rolling out the extension progressively and it would take a number of weeks earlier than all Android system customers can see the aptitude.

Gemini Utilities Extension

Ever because the launch of Gemini as a man-made intelligence (AI) assistant for Android gadgets, the chatbot has lacked some very essential capabilities accessible with Google Assistant. For occasion, it can’t open apps, click on an image utilizing the telephone’s digicam, or set an alarm. To repair this subject, Google introduced a brand new Utilities extension earlier this 12 months. In its support pages, the tech big introduced that the extension is lastly being rolled out to customers.

However, there are some limitations. The function is simply accessible through the Gemini cell app on Android smartphones. For the function to work, customers should have set Gemini because the default digital assistant. Additionally, the Utilities extension solely works with prompts within the English language for now. Also, because the function is being progressively rolled out, some customers may need to attend for a while earlier than it turns into accessible for them.

With this extension, Gemini AI assistant will have the ability to handle a number of duties on the lock display screen as properly. Some of them embody setting and silencing alarms, setting and stopping timers, turning on or off the flashlight, Bluetooth, DND and Battery Saver mode, checking the system’s quantity and battery stage, turning off the system or restarting, and extra.

Google additionally revealed that the extension will let the AI assistant carry out a number of actions with a single immediate. It may also open web sites, apps, and the settings menu. Further, Gemini will even have the ability to open the Camera app and click on an image or seize a screenshot.

This extension will even give Gemini the power to regulate media playback together with pause and play features in addition to transferring to the earlier or the subsequent media. This will solely work with the native media participant, nonetheless, and will not work with apps resembling Spotify or Apple Music. And lastly, customers will even have the ability to set alarms and timers with this function.