Gemini Live Can Now See Your IPhone’s Screen and Use the Camera
At Google I/O 2025, the company announced that Gemini Live Camera and Screen Sharing are coming to iPhone starting today. That means you’ll be able to use your phone’s camera to live stream to Gemini and talk to the AI agent about what it’s seeing. The feature has been available on Android for a while, but today marks the first time it’s coming to iPhone.
This could be useful for a number of things, such as showing Gemini a video of something in your area and asking it to identify the item. In theory, you could ask it to identify cars, trees, or important landmarks in your area, or ask it general questions about historical landmarks while you’re on vacation. Unfortunately, Google chose an incredibly weird video to demonstrate what Gemini Live Camera can do.
In it, a human being is deliberately obtuse and asks the AI exceptionally… stupid… questions, presumably to demonstrate that Gemini isn’t a complete idiot (or, as Google put it, that it’s not afraid to tell you when you’re wrong). They pointed the camera at a garbage truck, calling it a “convertible,” but Gemini was able to clarify that it was indeed a garbage truck. They repeated the same routine, calling a lamppost a “tall skinny building” and a shadow “someone following them.” If you were to just look at the demo to get a sense of the scope of Gemini Live Camera Sharing’s capabilities, it would be pretty hard to see how it holds up under stress testing.
Luckily, the Android blog has much better examples of what you can do with Gemini Live Camera. You can ask Gemini Live to give you advice on color palettes for your home, gift ideas, and more. As long as the AI isn’t hallucinating, this can be a really useful tool, as it also works with screen sharing. Just… don’t ask it if your shadow is a real person.