Summary
- Gmail is automating Gemini’s email summarization feature on Android and iOS for Google Workspace users, making it easier to quickly understand long email threads and those with multiple replies.
- Instead of manually tapping “Summarize this email,” eligible emails will now automatically display a summary card within the email content, which dynamically updates with new replies.
- This new feature, currently available for English emails, is rolling out now to various Google Workspace and Google One AI Premium subscribers, with full visibility expected within 15 days.
Google is injecting more of its AI smarts into Gmail, essentially automating one of Gemini’s key features.
For reference, Gmail, which holds the second largest email client market share, gained a trove of AI features with the introduction ‘Gemini in the side panel‘ in June last year. This includes the likes of email summarization, email response suggestions, draft assistance, the option to ask Gemini questions about and find specific information from emails within your inbox, and more.
Now, in a bid to make one of the more useful features from the suite added last year more accessible, Google has begun automating email summaries, but only where it makes sense.
Previously, users had to manually initiate a Gemini email summary by tapping the Summarize this email chip up top. Starting now, Workspace users can expect to see the summary card already populated when they open an email lengthy email, or an email with several replies. The manual summary generator will still be available for emails where the automatic feature doesn’t kick in.
Rolling out over the next two weeks
Additionally, while the previous manual feature summarized the contents of your emails in a separate Gemini overlay, the automatic card surfaces right within Gemini’s UI. With the original implementation, you could only look at either the email or the summary at once. With the new automatic card, you’re free to scroll through either.
Said summaries will also be dynamic, with subsequent email replies automatically being incorporated into the summary card.
Gemini will synthesize all the key points from the email thread and any replies thereafter will also be a part of the synopsis, keeping all summaries up to date.
Automatic summaries are rolling out now for emails in English. It can take up to 15 days for the feature to be widely visible to Business Starter, Standard and Plus, Enterprise Starter, Standard and Plus, and Google One AI Premium customers.
