Samsung Galaxy owners who have come to rely on the Now Brief feature to guide them through their days with meeting reminders, playlists, traffic reports, and updates about what’s happening at home and in the news, now have a new way to memorialize their days with Nano Banana.
A daily summary in photo form
Nano Banana integration into Now Brief allows for the AI assistant to pull an image from the Gallery, then the AI photo editing feature suggests some creative prompts to tweak the image, and after transforming the image accordingly, places it in the brief’s daily Memories recap.
In an example from SamMobile who first spotted the feature, a cute photo of a dog is turned into a Polaroid-style image in one shot and then given a custom mini-figure look in another. Because the image is supposed to be a reflection of the day, Nano Banana most frequently chooses selfies and other front-facing shots.
Source: Abhijeet Mishra/SamMobile
Rollout has started
To get Nano Bana image generation in your Now Brief, update the Personal Data Intelligence app on your phone. You should then see the option to toggle it on in Now Brief’s settings. The image prompts might not show up immediately in your briefing.
I could spot the toggle on my Galaxy S24 Ultra; however, enabling it didn’t showcase the card yet.
The expansion of AI image generation on Android
This update is just one of a few ways that Google’s viral AI-powered image generation tool is accessible on Galaxy phones and other Android devices. Nano Banana is already built into Google’s Gemini app, and has recently ventured into the Google Photos app where users are transforming their standard selfies into what could pass as entries in art history textbooks with prompts like “paint me as a Renaissance portrait” or “restyle this image as a mosaic made of colorful tiles.”
Turning randomly captured moments into ones that mark the passage of time in a Now Brief is an interesting way to get people to use Nano Banana as a part of their day.
