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Customize Gemini’s responses with your instructions

You can customize how Gemini Apps respond to you if you add instructions. For example, you could create instructions so that Gemini would always:

  • Start responses with a short summary.
  • Use bullet points for long paragraphs.
  • Remember preferences, facts, or custom instructions so you don't have to repeat information.

What you need

To add instructions for Gemini Apps, you need to:

  • Sign in with a personal Google Account. This feature isn’t available when you sign in to a work, school, or supervised Google Account. Learn how to sign in to Gemini Apps.

Important: For now, this feature is:

Add your instructions for Gemini

Important: Instructions for Gemini to forget or avoid topics in chats doesn’t always work perfectly. To make sure Gemini stops mentioning a topic, delete any chats about it from your Gemini Apps Activity.

  1. On your computer, go to gemini.google.com.
  2. At the bottom, click Settings & help 👁 Image
    👁 and then
    Personal Intelligence 👁 and then
    Instructions for Gemini.
  3. Click Add +.
  4. Enter the instructions you want Gemini Apps to apply to every chat.
  5. Click Submit.

Find, edit, or delete your instructions for Gemini

  1. On your computer, go to gemini.google.com.
  2. At the bottom, click Settings & help 👁 Image
    👁 and then
    Personal Intelligence 👁 and then
    Instructions for Gemini.
  3. Find the instructions you want to view, edit, or delete.
  4. Click More 👁 Image
    👁 and then
    Edit 👁 Image
    or Delete 👁 Image
    .

Turn your instructions for Gemini on or off

You can change whether Gemini Apps use your instructions at any time.

  1. On your computer, go to gemini.google.com.
  2. At the bottom, click Settings & help 👁 Image
    👁 and then
    Personal Intelligence 👁 and then
    Instructions for Gemini.
  3. At the top, turn Instructions for Gemini off 👁 Image
    or on 👁 Image
    .

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