Preview summaries of unread conversations in the Google Chat home view with the help of Gemini

22/11/2024

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What’s changing

Google is pleased to announce that Gemini in Google Chat can now help you catch up on unread conversations in the Chat home view with summaries.

Upon navigating to an unread conversation in home, click the “Summarize” button to see a quick, bulleted synopsis of the message content. This enables you to quickly review recent activity across all active conversations to determine where best to focus your time and attention.

Who’s impacted

End users

Why it’s important

Since introducing a more streamlined user experience in Google Chat to help you find what you need much faster, we’re adding more ways to help you prioritize the most important conversations. This new summaries in home feature does just that by helping you catch up more quickly.

Additional details

Summaries in the home view are available for any group conversation, space, or thread in home that contain unread messages.

Getting started

Admins: To access summaries in home, users need to have smart features and personalization turned on. Admins can turn on default personalization setting for their users in the Admin console.
End users: You can turn this feature ON/OFF by turning Smart features & controls in Google products ON/OFF.
- To see summaries on the web, hover over an unread group conversation, space, or thread from home in Chat and click “Summarize.”
- To see summaries on mobile, long press on an unread group conversation, space, or thread from home in Chat.
- Visit the Help Center to learn more about summaries in home.