Gemini Can Now Book You an Uber or Order a DoorDash Meal on Your Phone. Here’s How It Works

You mightiness be feeling déjà vu.

A decennary ago, companies similar Google and Apple made promises that their respective dependable assistants could implicit tasks connected your behalf. Apple said Siri could petition an Uber—try it today, and Siri conscionable opens the Uber app. Google claimed you'd beryllium capable to “Order my usual" astatine Starbucks with Google Assistant, but the acquisition was clunky, and Google yet removed the feature.

But now, successful the property of ample connection models and AI that understands earthy language, we're seeing the aforesaid promises backmost connected the table. At Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked event, Google and Samsung showed disconnected however you'll beryllium capable to usage the Gemini dependable adjunct to implicit tasks with a prime fig of third-party apps: publication an Uber, oregon bid nutrient done Uber Eats, DoorDash, oregon Grubhub. (Expect much app enactment aboriginal this twelvemonth erstwhile Android 17 arrives.)

The feature—still successful aboriginal preview—will lone beryllium disposable successful the US and South Korea to start, opening with the Galaxy S26 smartphones erstwhile they motorboat connected March 11, and aboriginal arsenic a bundle update for the Google Pixel 10 series. Here's however it works.

Step by Step

Ask Gemini to “Get maine an Uber to the airport,” and you'll spot it unfastened the Uber app successful a virtual window. Gemini volition proceed to tally this enactment successful the background, but you're capable to show what it's doing by tapping connected the unrecorded notification. You'll beryllium capable to spot the full process, though the thought is that you'll conscionable fto it tally successful the inheritance portion you absorption connected thing much important.

If it needs much information, accidental if you're successful the New York tristate country and it's unsure which of the 3 large airports you privation to spell to, it'll travel backmost to you and inquire those questions. Once it's done, you'll get a notification, and you'll beryllium taken to the Uber app's booking stage. Gemini won't marque the booking determination for you, truthful you'll person to take whether you privation an UberX oregon UberXL, corroborate the fare, and pat book.

“I notation to immoderate of the tasks that you mightiness privation to person automated arsenic benignant of integer laundry—things that you cognize you request to do, but are not needfully excited astir finishing,” Sameer Samat, president of the Android Ecosystem astatine Google, tells WIRED.