This week, the company announced that select Gmail users on iOS can now chat with Google's Gemini chatbot about their inbox right in the app. The feature - Gmail Q&A - was rolled out first for Android users last August.

Gmail Q&A is now live on iOS for Google One AI Premium subscribers and Google Workspace accounts with the Gemini Business, Enterprise, Education, or Education Premium add-ons. That will allow users to get answers to common questions and promptly resolve frequent email issues.

This feature will also help you answer certain questions about your mails by asking something like, "How much did the company spend on the last marketing event?" You can even ask Gemini to display unread messages from a specific sender. If you need a summarise of all the emails concerning a topic in your inbox, then you can state things like: "Catch me up on the emails about quarterly planning.".
According to Google, for now, Gmail Q&A can locate information from your inbox but will also be capable of locating information from your Drive in the future.

So the good news here is that Gmail's traditional search bar is by no means going anywhere anytime soon. Next to that you will now see the Gemini button. What the feature is all about is encouraging people to use AI when they are looking for particular information from their emails rather than how people have traditionally searched for these emails.

It's unlikely to be free for Gmail users anytime soon, considering that Google is marketing features like Gmail Q&A just to convince people to sign up for its monthly subscriptions. These would most likely be Google's best revenue-generating chance through Gemini.

Like almost every other tech company, Google has been adding AI features to its existing products, such as Google Docs, Gmail, Google Calendar, and others.
Feature expansion comes just a day after Gmail introduced new "summary cards" to assist you in organizing your inbox and creating tasks like tracking packages, checking in for flights, setting reminders, marking bills as paid, and more-always within the email app.

Google thus keeps its product alive by adding these updates to its email service, considering how many Gmail-like features came when the major update iOS 18 was released for Apple's Mail app.