Google has begun developing a new section within the settings of its artificial intelligence assistant, Gemini, designed to gather all texts and images that users explicitly ask the assistant to remember, according to an APK analysis of a new beta version of the company's Android app.
Centralized Management of Saved Texts and Images
The new feature was spotted under the name "Remembered items" within the "Personal intelligence" settings menu in version 17.70.10.sa.arm64 of the Google app. The accompanying interface descriptions indicate that it will allow users to review and manage textual and visual content that the model was asked to save for use as a reference in future conversations.
Google distinguishes between this new feature and the current "Memory" feature; traditional memory relies on the automatic summarization of user preferences inferred from past conversations, whereas the "Remembered items" list focuses on explicit, direct instructions entered by the user themselves to recall specific points.
Interface Nature and Expected Mechanism
The discovered programming interface showed a chat-like screen featuring a text box intended to let users add new details, or edit and delete saved items later. Although the option appeared after enabling certain internal flags, the backend code remains inactive, displaying an error message when trying to interact with the text box currently.
What Practically Changes for Users?
This development reflects Google's direction toward enhancing control over AI data and providing clearer transparency into what the assistant stores. Instead of the user having to directly ask Gemini what information it remembers, they will be able to visually review, audit, and easily modify their personal intelligence history from a single location.
Development Context and Current Limitations
This discovery comes shortly after a new shortcut for the remember command was spotted in the Gemini assistant popup interface. However, it is worth noting that features discovered via APK teardowns remain in the testing and development phase, with no official guarantee of their final release or availability to all users in upcoming stable updates.