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TL;DR Google could bring Gemini Daily Brief to Pixel phones’ lock screens via the At a Glance widget.
It’s unclear whether the AI-powered brief will appear in the At a Glance widget in its original form, given the space constraints.
Gemini Daily Brief is currently exclusive to US residents and requires a Google AI subscription to access.
Google’s At a Glance widget is already one of our favorite features on Pixel devices, making it a snap to keep up with useful info throughout our days. And now it looks like Google’s working to make it even better, as we spot the company preparing to bring a Gemini-related feature to the At a Glance lock screen experience.
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Digging around the latest version of the Android System Intelligence app, we’ve discovered early evidence of the Gemini Daily Brief making its way to the At a Glance lock screen widget. For the uninitiated, Gemini Daily Brief offers personalized and relevant updates to users every day and is currently available on Android and iOS, as well as the web. You won’t yet see this on your own device, but Google’s working to add a Gemini Daily Brief toggle to the long list of At a Glance features:
Current Upcoming
As you can see in the screenshots above, the Gemini Daily Brief toggle would appear among the multiple options in the Customize section, slotting in between the Air Quality and Finance toggles. The text accompanying the toggle leaves no ambiguity about what it’s designed to do. Unfortunately, we haven’t yet been able to actually get it to appear in the At a Glance lock screen widget, so it’s hard to tell what form it could take.
It will be interesting to see how the limited lock screen space might accommodate these briefs, which can sometimes be lengthy. This opens the possibility of Google possibly displaying a more compact version of the Daily Brief on the At a Glance lock screen widget. Samsung has managed to make the idea work, at least, and Samsung’s Now Brief, which serves a similar purpose on Galaxy phones, is accessible from the lock screen.
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