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In brief
- Google has finally started rolling out support for more file types for Gemini’s upload and analysis feature.
- You can upload documents and spreadsheets and ask Gemini for answers, summaries, and insights. You can even use it to create charts.
- This feature allows you to upload up to 10 files at once. However, you cannot upload images and documents to the same prompt.
Gemini’s upload and analysis feature finally supports more file types, allowing users to upload documents and spreadsheets to get answers, generate summaries, and create charts. The feature was previously limited to images, but now supports various document and spreadsheet file types in the latest beta version of the Google app.
Although Google’s recent announcement only affected Workspace users, we can confirm that the feature is also available to some Gemini Advanced users in the Google app beta version 15.34.32.29.arm64. As you can see in the video below, it lets you upload files from your phone’s storage or directly from Google Drive. You can then ask Gemini questions about the uploaded file and it will analyze the file to provide an appropriate answer.
The feature supports 10 file uploads of up to 100MB each at a time, but you can’t upload images and files in the same prompt. A support page highlighting the feature lists the following supported file types:
- Plain text files: TXT
- Document files: DOC, DOCX, PDF, RTF, DOT, DOTX, HWP, HWPX
- Documents created in Google Docs
- Tabular data files: CSV, TSV
- Spreadsheet files: XLS, XLSX
- Tables created in Google Sheets
The support page also states that Gemini can answer questions, create summaries, and provide insights into uploaded documents. For spreadsheets, the chatbot also helps you create a customizable chart. Gemini Advanced subscribers can use it in Gemini mobile apps, through the Gemini tab in the Google app, and in the Gemini web experience.
For now, you’ll need to open the full Gemini experience on mobile to use the new upload shortcut – it’s not available in the Gemini overlay. However, we can confirm that Google will add the shortcut to the overlay with a future update. As you can see in the screenshot above, we’ve managed to enable it with flags in the current beta version of the Google app, so it shouldn’t be long before it’s available to users.
