How the Gemini app’s new Google Photos integration will work

Abner Li | Apr 2 2025 - 6:17 pm PT

Last month, Google renamed Gemini Extensions and previewed an upcoming Google Photos “app,” with more details on how it works now available.

Besides @Google Photos, you can include “my photos” in your prompt to invoke the new integration. It lets you “search for a specific memory or recall information directly from your photo gallery with the Google Photos app in the Gemini mobile app” on Android and iOS.

The first aspect lets you find photos and videos based on:

Your face groups or relationships you’ve saved in Photos
Location or date the photo was taken
Description of what’s in the photo
Your current conversation with the Gemini mobile app

Example prompts include:

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Find my photos of Alex
Show my photos from last summer
Show me recent selfies
Show my photos from my most recent trip
Find my photos of landscapes

Meanwhile, you can “ask for important details found in your photos” with prompts like:

@Google Photos what themes have we had for Lena’s birthday parties?
@Google Photos what did we eat at the hotel in Stanly?
@Google Photos what were some of the things we ate in Mexico City?
@Google Photos what are the top 10 things we saw on our last trip?
@Google Photos what’s my driver’s license number?

This is exactly like the Ask Photos integration that entered testing last year.

Tapping an image or album result opens Google Photos, while you can “drag and drop a photo from the Gemini on-screen overlay into another app” (on Android).

If Gemini’s response includes photos retrieved from Google Photos, the share or export features only work with the text portion of the response and photos aren’t included.

In terms of availability, Google is “releasing this feature gradually to a select group of invited users.” (That invite might refer to the Ask Photos waitlist.) We’re not yet seeing it live on accounts we checked today.