Collaborate with Gemini in Google Drive (Workspace Experiments)

Feature availability

This feature requires an eligible Google Workspace or Google AI plan. Learn about Gemini features and plans.
Learn about supported languages for Google Workspace with Gemini.
This feature is available in Google Workspace Experiments, a trusted tester program for users with personal accounts to try new AI features. To check if you have access to Workspace Experiments features, open a new presentation in Google Slides and look for a bottom bar. Learn how to get started with Google Workspace Experiments.

Supported languages

You can use the Gemini in Drive side panel in some languages. Learn more about language availability.

With Gemini in Google Drive, you can:

Summarize a file, a folder, or information across several files.
Retrieve quick facts about a project or topic without the need to find and read the relevant documents.
Ask questions about folders.
Find a file or folder.
Summarize and ask questions about your images.

Get started with Gemini in Drive

On your Android device, open Google Drive .
At the top right, tap Ask Gemini .
At the bottom panel, select a suggested prompt.
- Or, you can write your own prompt.

Summarize a file

On your Android device, open Google Drive .
Open a file.
At the bottom, tap Summarize this file .
- Or, next to a file, you can tap More actions Summarize this file .
Optional: Select a suggested prompt.
- Or, you can enter a prompt to ask Gemini a follow-up question.

Tip: You can summarize multiple files at once.

On your Android device, open Google Drive .
In your doc list, touch and hold a file to highlight it.
Select multiple files.
Tap More actions Summarize these files .

Summarize a folder

On your Android device, open Google Drive .
Open a folder.
At the top right, tap Ask Gemini Summarize this folder .
- Or, in your doc list, next to the folder, you can tap More actions Summarize this folder .
Optional: Enter a prompt to ask Gemini questions about the folder.

Ask questions about your files or a topic across files

On your Android device, open Google Drive .
At the top right, tap Ask Gemini .
Enter your question.
- To limit your scope, you can @ mention files or folders by name.

Search for your files

On your Android device, open Google Drive .
At the top right, tap Ask Gemini .
To find a file based on its contents, in the prompt, enter the file details.

Give feedback on generated output

Gemini for Google Workspace is constantly learning and may not be able to support your request. Because feedback may be human readable, please do not submit data that contains personal, confidential, or sensitive information.

If you get a suggestion that’s inaccurate or that you feel is unsafe, you can submit feedback. Your feedback can help improve AI-assisted Workspace features and broader Google efforts in AI.

At the bottom right of the generated text, click Good suggestion or Bad suggestion .
If you select Bad suggestion , you can select the issue you found and enter additional feedback.

Optional:

To review data that’ll be attached with your feedback, at the bottom, select the data.
If you don’t want to include the data with your feedback, to help us improve the product experience, uncheck the box next to “Attach collected data to your feedback.”

Click Next.
Review additional context that you can share with your feedback. If you don’t want to include the additional context with your feedback, uncheck the box next to “Additional context.”
Click Submit.

To provide general feedback about Gemini, at the top, click Help and then Send feedback to Google.

To report a legal issue, create a request.

Turn off Gemini in Drive

To turn off any of the features on Google Workspace Experiments, you must exit Workspace Experiments. If you exit, you’ll permanently lose access to all Workspace Experiments features, and you won’t be able to rejoin Workspace Experiments. Learn more about how to exit Workspace Experiments.

Learn about Workspace Experiments feature suggestions

Workspace Experiments feature suggestions don’t represent Google’s views, and should not be attributed to Google.
Don’t rely on Workspace Experiments features as medical, legal, financial, or other professional advice.
Workspace Experiments features may suggest inaccurate or inappropriate information. Your feedback makes Workspace Experiments more helpful and safe.
Don’t include personal, confidential, or sensitive information.
Google uses Workspace Experiments data and metrics to provide, improve, and develop products, services, and machine learning technologies across Google. When you interact with Workspace Experiments features, Google collects your Workspace Experiments data, including your prompts and input, prompt and input refinements, generated output, generated output refinements, and feedback. Google also collects metrics on the usage of these features.
To help develop Workspace Experiments features, human reviewers may read, annotate, and process your Workspace Experiments interactions data.
Your conversations with Gemini in Drive are not saved to Gemini Apps Activity. When you delete your Gemini in Drive conversation history, it doesn't delete any information that is saved to your Gemini Apps Activity. Learn how to delete your Gemini Apps Activity.

How Workspace Experiments data in Google Drive is collected

When you use the Gemini in Drive side panel, Google uses and stores the following data:

Prompts you enter or select
Generated text
Google Workspace content that you have access to that is referenced to generate content (both Google-selected input and user-provided input).
Your feedback on the Gemini in Drive side panel.

To understand how this data is used, review the Google Workspace Experiments Privacy Notice and Terms for Personal Accounts.