If you have been talking to another AI and want Gemini to stop acting like it just met you, Google has added a couple of tools to make the handoff less painful. The new features let you move what your old chatbot knows about you and bring over past conversations so Gemini can pick up where the other assistant left off.

What Google added

Google introduced two desktop features for Gemini: Import Memory and Import Chat History. They are showing up for both free and paid consumer Gemini accounts. These tools are not available for business, enterprise, or under-18 accounts right now.

Import Memory - copy over preferences and facts

The Import Memory tool gives you suggested prompts to paste into your previous AI. You run that prompt there, copy the AI's response, and paste it into Gemini. The idea is that Gemini will ingest that output and learn your preferences and other details the old assistant already stored.

Import Chat History - move actual conversations

The Import Chat History option asks you to export your chats from the other AI and upload them to Gemini as a .zip file. Gemini accepts up to 5 GB per upload. Once imported, you can continue chats inside Gemini from where you left off with the previous service.

Managing what you bring in

  • You can delete specific imported chats from the Chat section in the left-hand menu.
  • If you want to remove an entire archive you uploaded, those .zip imports are listed under settings where you can delete them.
  • Google is also relabeling the old “past chats” area to memory inside Gemini, to match the new import features.

Context

This change comes after another AI company updated its own import tool earlier in the month, so the idea of moving memories between chatbots is becoming more common. Google's approach aims to make the transfer straightforward: a guided prompt for memory, and a bulk chat upload for histories.

Overall, the new options should make switching to Gemini smoother for people who already teach a different assistant about their likes, dislikes, and ongoing conversations.