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TL;DR
- Google might quickly permit customers to launch Gemini Stay utilizing two gestures.
- We’ve noticed a brand new Launch Stay possibility in Gemini settings that can allow you to allow the upcoming gestures.
- Along with the swipe gesture we noticed final month, you may additionally be capable to launch Gemini Stay by lengthy urgent the facility button.
Google is engaged on a change that ought to make it simpler for customers to start out a Gemini Stay dialog on their Android telephones. We first noticed proof of this modification in January and gave you an early take a look at the swipe gesture that might allow you to begin a Gemini Stay dialog proper from the house display screen. It now seems that the swipe gesture will not be the one new shortcut to launch Gemini Stay.
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To start out a Gemini Stay dialog, you at the moment should faucet the Gemini Stay button within the Gemini app or overlay. Nonetheless, based mostly on the proof we shared earlier this yr, chances are you’ll quickly be capable to launch Gemini Stay by swiping diagonally from the underside corners of the display screen.
Within the newest Google app launch (model 16.8.31), we’ve noticed a brand new “Launch Stay” possibility within the Gemini settings that would allow you to allow this gesture. As proven within the hooked up screenshots, the Launch Stay possibility lists “Press and maintain energy button” as a supported gesture. This leads us to imagine that Google may additionally allow you to customise the facility button gesture to set off Gemini’s conversational mode as an alternative of opening the Gemini overlay.
Within the present launch, the facility button gesture setting doesn’t checklist Gemini Stay as an possibility, however that would change with a future construct. We’ll replace this put up with extra particulars as quickly as these new Gemini Stay gestures go dwell.
