- Google has created Gemini Live’s screen and camera sharing features for free for all Android users.
- The release turns the previous setting of a subscriber only.
- The feature lets Gemini respond to real -time visual input from your screen or camera.
In a surprise distortion and a reversal of its previous payment walled plans, Google has announced that Gemini Live’s screen and camera sharing features are now rolling out for free to all Android users. No subscription or pixel ownership is necessary, just gemini live, available to anyone with the Gemini app on Android.
This update means your AI assistant can now see what’s on your screen or through your camera lens and respond to it in real time. Gemini lives with screen sharing allows you to show Gemini a web page, a spreadsheet or a tangled mess of app settings and ask for help. Or you can point your camera to a real object, such as a product label, a chessboard or a confusing Ikea manual, and let Gemini identify and explain what you are looking at.
The feature debuted only earlier this month, but only for Gemini advanced subscribers and only for certain phones, such as Pixel 9 and Samsung Galaxy S25. At that time, Google said the visual abilities would eventually expand, but even then only to other subscribers. Google apparently had a change in the heart, or at least claims to have decided to open access because of how much people seem to like the feature. Now it rolls out to any Android over the next few weeks.
We’ve heard good feedback on Gemini Live with camera and shielding, so we decided to bring it to more people ✨ Starting today, and in the coming weeks we roll it out to * all * @android users with the Gemini app. Enjoy! PS If you don’t have the app yet, … https://t.co/dtsxlzlxniApril 16, 2025
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The idea for the feature is to make Gemini more flexible as an assistant. Instead of just answering questions you are writing or speaking, it visually interprets the world around you. The move also coincides with Microsoft, which announces that Copilot Vision, its own version of AI Eyes, is now available for free in the edge browser. It can be a coincidence, but probably only in the way you run into your hug outside their class in high school is a coincidence.
But while Microsoft’s copilot lives in the browser, Gemini’s advantage is its integration right in the Android ecosystem. No need to shoot up edge or download a separate tool. Gemini Live Bake in the same system that is already running your device.
The new ability fits many of the other additions and upgrades that Gemini has added in recent months. The AI assistant is now delivered with real-time moodchat, a new overlay, so you can call Gemini on top of other apps and include the long report that writes the tool Deep Research.
When the new feature is live, you will see the option to “share screen” or “use camera” in certain Gemini -Prompts on Android devices. And because Google gives this away for free, it sets a new bar. If Gemini can see your screen and your camera without charging you for the privilege, what happens to the idea of ”Premium” AI access? The developers probably hotly discuss what AI features are worth paying for and how much they have to charge when all these tools at least for now become free.
