If you drive with an iPhone plugged into the car, you can now talk to Google’s Gemini on the dashboard screen. Google says Gemini Live is arriving on Apple CarPlay from 11 November, and the update is meant for conversations rather than one-off commands.
Look for the Gemini icon among your CarPlay apps or on the side rail. A tap resumes a recent chat or starts a new one, and you can cut in with a correction, switch topics or go quiet while you take an exit. Each conversation also appears in the Gemini app on your phone, which means summaries and notes are there to read after you park.
Google pitches it at the commute. It can run through your schedule, read out a daily brief and boil down a long email chain, and because it is tied to Gmail and Calendar the answers come from your own account. Away from work, Google suggests it for finding lunch near where you are heading or as a practice audience for a talk.
Before it works, the iPhone needs the newest Gemini app, microphone access and a first Gemini Live chat done on the phone itself. The daily brief is a separate switch, and Google says it, plus some other personalised features, is closed to under-18s and to users in the European Economic Area and Nigeria.
In its announcement, Google says this comes after Gemini reached the Android Auto platform and cars running Google’s own software. Availability is worldwide, in each language that Gemini Live handles, with the rollout beginning on 11 November.
