{"id":266069,"date":"2026-06-06T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/06\/i-finally-figured-out-how-to-make-gemini-actually-useful-on-android\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T16:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T20:00:09","slug":"i-finally-figured-out-how-to-make-gemini-actually-useful-on-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/06\/i-finally-figured-out-how-to-make-gemini-actually-useful-on-android\/","title":{"rendered":"I finally figured out how to make Gemini actually useful on Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-finally-figured-out-how-to-make-gemini-actually-useful-on-android\/\">I finally figured out how to make Gemini actually useful on Android<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-finally-figured-out-how-to-make-gemini-actually-useful-on-android\/\">https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-finally-figured-out-how-to-make-gemini-actually-useful-on-android\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-06 15:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.makeuseof.com\">www.makeuseof.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gemini is my default AI assistant on my smartphone, computer, and every device that I use. I use it occasionally to ask for something, get inspired, or create\/edit images and videos, and that\u2019s about it. Until now, this whole relationship was something like I had a really smart assistant who just sat in the corner of the room and waited to be called on. Things changed when one day I genuinely needed help with my research for an article I found interesting, but had zero time to read, and had to reply to three WhatsApp messages while working.<\/p>\n<p>And instead of using Gemini in the standard way, I used it the way it was probably meant to be used. The best part was that there was a fix hiding right inside the app, which I had overlooked. If you are still using Gemini like a fancy chatbot on your phone, then you are missing out on something very interesting.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\tGemini isn\u2019t as useless as it was when you tried it two years ago<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">AI that I first despised is now my Google Assistant replacement.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"gemini-was-supposed-to-be-better-than-google-assistant\">\n                 &#8230;<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-finally-figured-out-how-to-make-gemini-actually-useful-on-android\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally figured out how to make Gemini actually useful on Android https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-finally-figured-out-how-to-make-gemini-actually-useful-on-android\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":266070,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.makeuseofimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/06\/gemini-utilities-hero.jpg?w=1200&h=675&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-266069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266071,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266069\/revisions\/266071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}