Gemini in Gmail is Google's built-in AI writing and summarizing assistant for email. A summary button at the top of a conversation condenses long threads, and a sidebar offers detailed summaries plus next steps and tasks. Prompts can draft a new email or a reply, existing drafts can be refined, and content from Google Drive files can be pulled into responses. It also improves inbox search, so questions about a topic or a person return precise answers. It is available on computers and mobile devices for both business and personal use.
Anyone who spends much of the day in Gmail will find a use for it: managers facing long reply-all threads, sales and account teams answering similar questions repeatedly, support staff, founders, freelancers and assistants who manage several inboxes. Small businesses and large enterprises on Google Workspace can switch it on for their teams, and individuals can use it in personal accounts. People who find it hard to start a message will benefit from first drafts, and busy readers who only need the gist of a thread can skip the scrolling.
Common scenarios include catching up on a long thread after time away by pressing the summarize button, asking the sidebar for action items from a customer conversation, and typing a short instruction to produce a first draft of a reply. A user can ask for a summary of everything about a project or from a specific colleague, then search Drive files for a figure and place it in a response. Smart replies speed up quick answers on the go in the official Gmail app, and drafts written in a rush can be polished before sending.
