Gemini Can Now Guide You an Uber or Order a DoorDash Meal on Your Cellphone. Right here’s How It Works

You is likely to be feeling déjà vu.

A decade in the past, corporations like Google and Apple made guarantees that their respective voice assistants might full duties in your behalf. Apple mentioned Siri might request an Uber—attempt it immediately, and Siri simply opens the Uber app. Google claimed you’d be capable to “Order my ordinary” at Starbucks with Google Assistant, however the expertise was clunky, and Google finally eliminated the characteristic.

However now, within the age of massive language fashions and AI that understands pure language, we’re seeing the identical guarantees again on the desk. At Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked occasion, Google and Samsung confirmed off how you can use the Gemini voice assistant to finish duties with a choose variety of third-party apps: e book an Uber, or order meals via Uber Eats, DoorDash, or Grubhub. (Anticipate extra app assist later this 12 months when Android 17 arrives.)

The characteristic—nonetheless in early preview—will solely be accessible within the US and South Korea to begin, starting with the Galaxy S26 smartphones once they launch on March 11, and later as a software program replace for the Google Pixel 10 collection. This is the way it works.

Step by Step

{Photograph}: Julian Chokkattu

{Photograph}: Julian Chokkattu

Ask Gemini to “Get me an Uber to the airport,” and you will see it open the Uber app in a digital window. Gemini will proceed to run this motion within the background, however you are in a position to monitor what it is doing by tapping on the dwell notification. You can see all the course of, although the thought is that you’re going to simply let it run within the background when you concentrate on one thing extra necessary.

If it wants extra data, say when you’re within the New York tristate space and it is uncertain which of the three main airports you wish to go to, it will come again to you and ask these questions. As soon as it is performed, you may get a notification, and you will be taken to the Uber app’s reserving stage. Gemini will not make the reserving resolution for you, so you may have to decide on whether or not you need an UberX or UberXL, verify the fare, and faucet e book.

“I discuss with among the duties that you simply may wish to have automated as form of digital laundry—issues that you recognize that you must do, however are usually not essentially enthusiastic about ending,” Sameer Samat, president of the Android Ecosystem at Google, tells WIRED.