Google Gemini gets a new feature that makes it more like a personal assistant

Google’s Gemini app is starting to look more like a personal assistant than just another chatbot. As announced at I/O 2025, the app is becoming “more personal, proactive and powerful,” and that journey continues with the rollout of a new feature called scheduled actions — now live for users with Google AI Pro or Ultra subscriptions, as well as eligible Workspace accounts.

In a blog post,  Google said that scheduled actions let users assign tasks to Gemini that run automatically at a specific time or on a recurring basis. Whether it’s a daily morning update with your calendar and unread emails or a weekly creativity boost like five fresh blog ideas every Monday, Gemini now allows you to automate that conversation — no repeated prompting needed.

How to set up the feature
To set it up, users simply issue a command like, “Give me a summary of the day’s news every morning at 8 a.m.,” or turn an existing prompt into a recurring action. All scheduled tasks can be reviewed and managed from a dedicated page within Gemini’s settings.

The use cases go beyond productivity, as per Google. You can tell Gemini to remind you about a sports score after a match, summarize award shows the day after they air, or check for new job listings every week. It’s a move that brings Gemini closer to the kind of proactive assistant Google once envisioned for Google Now — but now powered by generative AI.