Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority
TL;DR Google is testing a new feature that lets users prevent Gemini 3 Pro from thinking.
This will allow Gemini to fall back on the Flash model, resulting in quicker responses.
Google is already testing the feature with a select set of users.
With the release of the Gemini 3 generation of AI models, Google’s smart assistant has racked up brilliant deep-thinking capabilities. However, the lack of a smart automatic model selector actively switching between fast and deep-thinking models — as ChatGPT offers — can result in Gemini taking longer and consuming more tokens for straightforward queries that don’t truly require deep thinking.
An upcoming update to Gemini, however, could fix that, allowing users to manually override thinking and dial back to a quicker response.
Google has been spotted testing a new control that will allow users to stop Gemini from thinking and switch to Flash models for faster responses. We’ve received a tip about a Skip button that appears when Gemini starts thinking while responding. Tapping the button stops it from thinking and switches it to the model with fewer parameters, yielding an instant answer.
Besides eliminating the thinking process, the Skip button ensures that Gemini attempts to answer the question directly, rather than listing out its reasoning. Since it can affect the quality of responses in scenarios that require active thinking, the Skip feature is best suited to factual or closed-ended queries, such as general knowledge or direct math.
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