Google Gemini brings a powerful AI assistant to iOS – one that’s capable of far more than just answering questions. Grant Gemini access to your Gmail, Google Calendar and more, and it goes from chatbot to action-ready agent, connecting dots and helping you to get things done.

Here are some of our favourite ways to use it – and how to set it up.

You arrive at a train station in an unfamiliar city and just want to get to your hotel. Instead of digging through emails for the booking confirmation and pasting addresses into a maps app, simply ask Gemini.

With access to your Gmail and Google Maps, Gemini can find your hotel details, start navigation and – if you’d like – pin a cosy cafe along the route.

Even physical mail becomes easier to manage with Gemini. Snap a photo of, for example, a letter from your property manager and Gemini can analyse it, check the proposed dates against your Google Calendar and draft a reply email.

You can open the finished message – which comes complete with a subject line and recipient – directly in Gmail, to give it a final once-over before hitting send.

It’s five minutes before a key meeting and you haven’t had a chance to read the necessary updates, which are scattered across emails and Google Drive. No need to panic, though: just ask Gemini for a quick briefing.

It pulls together the latest updates from your connected Google accounts and delivers a ready-to-read summary, so you can show up prepared – without opening a single file yourself.

This seamless experience works because all your data lives in one ecosystem. To give Gemini access to your Gmail, Google Drive, Google Calendar and more, you'll need to enable Connected Apps first.

To do this, tap your profile picture in the top right of the Gemini app, followed by Connected Apps and enable Google Workspace.