Google Gemini Can Now Remember Your Previous Chats
Google’s Gemini apps are getting a memory upgrade: The AI bot can now recall past conversations you’ve had with it, building on the tool’s existing ability to remember personal data about you, such as the products you like or what you do professionally.
Like some of Gemini’s other new features when they first launched, it’s exclusive to Google One AI Premium ( $20/month ) subscribers, with English-speaking users getting the update first. Google says support for more languages and enterprise accounts will be added in the “coming weeks.”
Google’s goal is to make Gemini more useful. You can go back to something you were chatting about last week or last month, for example, or ask an AI chatbot to summarize everything you’ve ever discussed about movies.
“Whether you’re asking a question about something you’ve already discussed or asking a Gemini to recap a previous conversation, Geminis now use information from relevant chats to craft an answer,” writes Google’s Dave Citron .
While this may raise privacy concerns, nothing has changed in terms of the control users have over their Gemini data: past conversations may be removed from the record after a certain period of time or may never be saved at all. If you don’t, your chats may be used to further train Google’s AI models.
You may remember that OpenAI added conversation search to ChatGPT back in November, so Gemini isn’t the only such AI tool experimenting with persistent memory. So far I have not seen this in other chatbots such as Copilot or Perplexity.
How to get a new memory update
Log in to Gemini using a premium account, selecting English, and you will receive the new update automatically.
You can ask about previous chats using the same natural language that is appropriate for any other Gemini conversation. Something like, “What did we talk about yesterday?” or “to summarize today’s chats” will do. In my testing, it’s mostly pretty accurate, with links to previous chats, although there were one or two hiccups.
I asked Gemini to recommend movies, and the chatbot remembered that in a previous chat I said that I liked David Lynch films – a good example of a good memory function. Since I usually delete AI chats, I can’t dig further into previous days or weeks of entries, which might be more of a check.
The privacy settings here have not changed. Tap Activity in the left pane (on the web) or tap your account picture, then tap Gemini App Activity (on mobile). On the next screen, you will be able to delete specific conversations or your entire Gemini chat history. You can also stop chats from being saved in the future or set them to be deleted automatically after a set amount of time.
It is also possible to delete individual chats from the Gemini interface. On the web, click the three dots next to a conversation in the left pane, then select Delete . On mobile, long-press on any previous conversation and tap Delete . Erasing a chat is like erasing Gemini’s memory and you won’t be able to get back to it again.
However, you should not introduce anything too personal or sensitive into your conversation with a Gemini: chats are sometimes human-checked for quality control purposes. “Please do not enter sensitive information or any data into your conversations that you would not want the reviewer to see or Google to use to improve our products, services, and machine learning technologies,” Gemini’s privacy policy explains .