Ask Gemini and AI Overviews now let Android and iOS users chat with their files and get instant summaries on the go
A New Chat Button for Your Files
Google is extending its AI productivity tools to smartphones, introducing Ask Gemini and AI Overviews within the Google Drive mobile app for both Android and iOS. The features, which launched on desktop earlier this year, aim to help people locate information, summarize documents, and interact with their files without opening them one by one.
The tools are rolling out to eligible Google AI Pro, AI Ultra, and Workspace subscribers across more than two dozen languages.
Conversational Search Across Your Workspace
The centerpiece of the update is Ask Gemini, a new icon placed beside Drive’s search bar. Selecting it opens a chat window where users can pose questions covering not just Drive files but also Gmail, Google Chat, Calendar, and general web content. The assistant supports back-and-forth conversation, letting people refine questions, ask follow-ups, and add extra files for context. Chats are saved, so users can pick up earlier conversations rather than starting over — useful for ongoing project research spread across multiple documents.
The assistant doesn’t copy or duplicate files, only draws on content the user already has access to, and continues to respect enterprise controls like data-loss prevention.
Smarter Search Results
Alongside the chatbot, AI Overviews will now appear directly in Drive’s search results, generating quick summaries pulled from multiple relevant documents in response to natural-language queries. Users can tap through from a summary into a full Ask Gemini conversation, and can control which Workspace apps are included when generating overviews.
The rollout will continue over the coming weeks for AI Pro, AI Ultra, Workspace Business and Enterprise tiers, and Google AI Pro for Education subscribers.
