Gemini Will Remember More (or Less) Of What You Say

Google is adding a impermanent chat characteristic to Gemini. The balanced of a browser's incognito mode, it lets you person one-off AI chats. They won't look successful your history, power early chats aliases beryllium utilized for training.

The impermanent chats will beryllium saved for up to 72 hours. Google says this is to springiness you clip to revisit nan chat aliases supply feedback. The characteristic originates rolling retired coming and will proceed to do truthful complete nan coming weeks.

It arrives alongside a caller mounting that does, well, beautiful overmuch nan opposite. The Gemini app tin now study from your conversations and retrieve specifications and preferences. It whitethorn past reference them successful early chats. (For example, it mightiness callback a hobby you erstwhile mentioned erstwhile you later inquire it for statement taxable ideas.)

Google added nan past chats characteristic to Gemini Advanced earlier this year. ChatGPT and Claude each person a akin representation option.

The representation mounting is connected by default, truthful you'll want to tweak your privateness settings arsenic soon arsenic it arrives if you don't want to usage it. In nan Gemini app, caput to Settings > Personal discourse > Your past chats pinch Gemini to alteration it.

Speaking of settings, Google is changing nan sanction of its data-retention toggle. What was erstwhile "Gemini Apps Activity" is now branded arsenic "Keep Activity." Despite nan semantic change, your erstwhile mounting will stick, truthful you shouldn't request to alteration this one.

Personalized conversations will first motorboat pinch Gemini 2.5 Pro successful "select countries." It will make its measurement to 2.5 Flash and much regions successful nan weeks ahead.