Gmail’s smart replies are getting ‘smarter’; here’s how the improved AI feature will work

Gmail’s smart replies will now be more personalised. At its latest annual developer conference, Google I/O 2025, the company’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, announced that the feature will now be able to pull information from the user’s inbox and Google Drive with the help of Gemini AI. During the event, Pichai showed a demo of him replying to a co-worker’s email about a holiday to show how Gmail will personalise replies based on the user. These enhancements build on Google’s “contextual” upgrade to smart replies introduced last year. With these new changes, smart replies are expected to be able to incorporate a broader range of context than before. With this update, Google aims to make Gemini better match the user’s tone and style, making suggested replies more relevant and tailored to individual user communication patterns.