Gemini will no longer wait for input. With this feature, it will help you even if you don't ask it to

Artificial intelligence in phones is gradually changing its role. From a tool we turn to with specific questions, it is slowly becoming a silent companion that predicts what we will need at a given moment and offers solutions. This is precisely the direction Google is apparently heading, as it is preparing a feature called Proactive Assistance in the Gemini app. This was revealed by Android Authority in the current version of the Google app (17.18.22.sa.arm64).

An assistant that doesn’t wait for input

The principle of Proactive Assistance is simple. Instead of Gemini waiting for your query, it will continuously monitor three sources of information: content currently displayed on the screen, incoming notifications, and data from applications for which you grant permission. Based on these inputs, it will offer contextual suggestions, reminders, and quick actions at the moment they might be useful to you.

In practice, this could mean, for example, a notification about an upcoming meeting with a suggestion of when it’s time to leave, an automatically created calendar event from a colleague’s message, or an offer to reply to an email the moment you open it. The feature thus in many ways resembles the now unavailable service Google Now, only it is built on significantly more advanced language models.

Privacy to remain on the phone

You can find the feature in Gemini’s settings, where it can be toggled on or off with a single switch. In the Connected apps section, you can then specify which applications Gemini can draw from. Currently, only Contacts and Messages are supported in the test version. Other services like Gmail and Calendar fall under the broader set of Personal Intelligence, which Google launched in Gemini earlier this year. However, it has not yet arrived in the Czech Republic.

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A key point that will be decisive for many users concerns privacy. Google states in the feature description that all data is processed directly on the device in a private encrypted environment. According to Google, this information is not used for model training or for manual review by human evaluators.

When will the feature reach users?

Google has not yet announced a specific launch date. However, given how developed Proactive Assistance appears in the current app version, users could expect a public release relatively soon. As is common with similar leaks, the tested feature does not always make it into the final version in the exact form in which it was discovered.

Would you use an assistant that decides on its own when to remind you of something?

Source: Android Authority