Google Gemini's Chat Search Feature Coming to Android: A Long-Awaited Update

Google Gemini's Android app is almost ready to roll out this basic feature

Google Gemini is arguably one of the most popular AI chatbots you will find today. Its feature set has evolved significantly over the last couple of months, thanks to new features powered by recent inclusions like Veo 3. Similarly, Google also introduced a chat search feature in recent weeks, enabling users to search their chat history with Gemini, albeit only on the web and iOS. It now looks like the feature is almost ready to land on Android smartphones. Related Gemini is finally on watches, but when will it hit other platforms? What about cars and TVs and speakers? Posts 1 Thanks to screenshots posted by a Reddit user, we know the chat search functionality is on the way for Android. However, the feature was not live on a couple of Android devices I've checked, while comments below the Reddit thread also suggest it isn't widely available (via 9to5Google). The search feature works exactly as you would expect, and helps you locate your older conversations with Gemini, provided you remember some of the keywords. Of course, if you use Gemini on an Apple iPhone, you can already search through your chats, which is somewhat frustrating for Android smartphone owners. There are ways to get Gemini chat search on your Android phone Meanwhile, if you can't wait to try out chat search on your Android phone, one of the simpler workarounds involves using the web version of the app, i.e., using Gemini (gemini.google.com) from your smartphone browser. It's identical to the experience you'd get on the app, but with the inclusion of some visual changes that haven't made it to the app yet. Away from this search feature, Gemini is also working on giving its logo a bit of a glow-up to align with Google's brand identity. The updated logo currently appears in a couple of places across the Gemini app, including in the Google Play Store listing. Newer reporting suggests Google is keen on bringing the familiar blue, red, green, and yellow colors to more elements of Gemini. Earlier this week, 9to5Google dug up evidence of the onscreen Gemini overlay (triggered by long-pressing the power button) incorporating these four colors for a more consistent experience. Are you seeing the chat search option in the Gemini app? Let us know.

Gemini for Android Might Be Getting the Search Chat Feature Finally

The Search for Chats feature was already available on iOS and the web Google is said to be rolling out chat search functionality in Gemini for Android. A social media post shared a screenshot of the new search bar in the Android version of the artificial intelligence (AI) app. The feature is currently available on both iOS as well as on the web, but it has not been made available to Android users. With this feature, users can search for past conversations just by typing keywords from the chat. Notably, Google has not officially confirmed the rollout of the feature. Reddit user u/JosefTor7 posted a screenshot of the feature on the r/Bard group. In the screenshot, a search bar with the text "Search for chats" was visible. The search bar was located within the hamburger menu on the top left. However, Gadgets 360 staff members were not able to spot the feature yet. The reason for that could be that the Mountain View-based tech giant is shipping it in a phased rollout, and it might take up to a couple of weeks before it is available to all Android users. The Reddit user noted, "I didn't see it listed in the app update notes so they must have snuck it in or did a server side update." Before its arrival on the web and iOS, the search bar in Gemini was one of the highly requested features from users. Earlier, the only way to find an older conversation was by scrolling down the recent chats list located in the side panel on the web, or the hamburger menu on iOS. Notably, OpenAI also added the feature to ChatGPT recently. Now, with the search bar, users can simply run a semantic search that prioritises both keyword matches from past conversations, as well as understands the meaning and intent behind a search query. In the Reddit post, several commenters were excited to finally receive the much-awaited feature, while others expressed frustrations over the company taking so much time to build it. One user said, "Kind of funny that the search company took so long to build a very basic full text search into one of their most important products on their own operating system."