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Title: Screen and camera sharing in Gemini Live is heading to all Android and
iOS devices

Date: Tue, 20 May 2025 17:20:28 +0000
Link: https://www.engadget.com/ai/screen-and-camera...

Last month, Gemini Live camera and screen sharing became available on Pixel
phones as part of Google's April feature drop. But today, at Google I/O 2025,
the company announced that it's bringing that capability to all compatible
Android and iOS devices as part of a free update.

Available inside the Gemini app, the ability to share your phone's camera or
content from your screen with Google's AI is meant to make it easier and more
natural to get answers about complex topics. For example, instead of
describing a situation only using your voice, you could simply point your
handset's camera at something while Gemini uses object recognition to analyze
the scene and do things like identify a particular species of animal or tell
you want kind of screw or bolt you might need to perform a repair.

While Google doesn't have a concrete timeline for when these features will
land on your device, the company says that "in the coming weeks," Gemini Live
will get deeper integration with some of its other apps including Google
Maps, Calendar, Tasks, Keep and more. The idea is that when you ask a
question, Gemini will have more pertinent info to pull from so it can come up
with more relevant and useful replies. Thankfully, for anyone concerned about
data privacy, Google says these app connections can be easily managed inside
the Gemini app and that users can adjust their settings at any time.

With Google's continued push into AI and the expansion of Gemini's abilities,
it was only a matter of time before camera and screen sharing arrived on non-
Pixel devices. That said, with the feature having just become available on
first-party phones last month, it's nice to see that there won't be a huge
wait for more folks to get access to these features.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at
https://www.engadget.com/ai/screen-and-camera...
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