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How do I use Gemini well, on my phone and in Google apps?

Make it your phone's assistant, connect your Google apps, and save the instructions you repeat. On Android, set the Google app as your default assist app and Gemini replaces Google Assistant: long-press the power button or say 'Hey Google'. On iPhone it is its own app. Turn on Connected Apps so it can find an email in Gmail, summarise a Drive file or add a calendar event. Use Gemini Live to talk a problem through, Deep Research for a report drawn from many sources, and Canvas to draft a document. Instructions you reuse become skills, which replace Gems for personal accounts from November 2026: type / and the skill's name in any chat. The free plan runs a Flash-Lite model; in India Google AI Plus is Rs 399 a month and Pro, with Gemini 4 Argon and Gemini inside Gmail and Docs, Rs 1,950. Check anything it pulls from your mail or files before you act on it.

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