- Google Gemini can now access extensions from your lock screen
- This means that it can use other telephone applications to perform tasks
- Gemini will not be able to access personal information such as your calendar
Google widens what Gemini is able to do from the lock screen of your phone. The new AI update will allow users of the Android device to quickly access Gemini extensions alongside regular AI assistance without having to unlock their phone once they have activated the functionality.
To access the version of the Gemini locking screen, you will need to use the wake word ‘Hey Google’, the activation of the integrated AI of your device (like the long pressure of the power button on the Google Pixel phones). Then, you can make your usual gemini requests – either to receive more in -depth responses from the AI, or to tell him to make an action using one of your other applications.
Previously, if Gemini had to rely on another application to finish his goal, you should unlock your device, which could be frustrating if you hoped to finish the task of free. From now on, prompts such as setting up a reminder to take chocolates and roses before your appointment, or ask when the nearest Starbucks closes and how far it is, can be made hands with A locked phone.
Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on how you look at him), Gemini will not be able to extract personal application information such as your calendar or your email worry about AI revealing private information to anyone who poses A question of survey on your phone.
How to activate Gemini on the lock screen
The activation of the new Gemini extension powers is simple. If you previously authorized Google Assistant on the lock screen or gemini on the lock screen, the new tool has been activated by default.
If you have not allowed your AI to work on your lock screen but you want to activate it, you will have to open the Gemini application, press your profile photo in the upper right corner of the screen, Access your settings, press “Gemini on Lock Screen”, then in this submenu switch on the option at the top of the page.
Once you have allowed Gemini to operate without unlocking your device, you will have to allow AI separately to make calls and send messages without unlocking – which also forces you to connect your call and messaging applications with AI.
