Google Lets Gemini Users See and Edit What the Chatbot Remembers About Them

The feature addresses a growing problem for AI assistants. Gemini already draws on earlier chats to personalise its answers, but users have had little practical way to check what it has stored. Memory summary sorts those details into categories, such as background, relationships, work, interests and preferences, rather than presenting a long list of unconnected facts, Android Authority reported. Users can change individual entries, remove information and look through a history of when their memory was changed.

According to Google's support page, as cited by Android Authority, the feature is for users in the United States aged 18 or older who have an active Google AI subscription. They also need English set as their language, with Keep Activity and Memory switched on. Work and school accounts are excluded, according to other reports on the rollout. In the Gemini app the page sits under Settings, then Personal Intelligence, then Memory summary; on the web it is reached through the menu at gemini.google.com. Users can also ask Gemini directly what it knows about them.

In practice the rollout looks wider than the official terms. Android Authority found Memory summary working on Gemini's desktop website with a free account outside the US, without a VPN, and in a phone's web browser, but not in the latest version of the Gemini mobile app. The publication said it was unclear whether Google intended that broader access. Google had not commented publicly on the feature beyond its support documentation.

The launch follows scrutiny of how Gemini handles personal data. Google said this week that human reviewers working on Gemini may see excerpts of users' Gmail and Drive files, a disclosure that drew attention to how much the assistant can access when connected to other Google services.

OpenAI and Anthropic offer similar memory controls in ChatGPT and Claude, and the ability to inspect and correct stored information is becoming a standard expectation for assistants that remember users over time. For Google, the next question is when Memory summary reaches the Gemini mobile app and users outside the US, neither of which the company has dated.