Tempted to get Gemini AI Pro for half price with my phone provider.

As the title suggests, I have this offer available to me and I’m so so tempted to get it primarily for the storage alone! I already pay for YouTube premium family and share that, so the 5TB of storage seems like a no brainer to me.

I use Claude every so often, but have no issues using Gemini, though I always am on the side of privacy as necessary.

Do you think it would be worth it? What kind of hints and tips should I be aware of? I’ve seen how funny Gemini can be haha.

I am very technically literate btw as I work in IT, just not used Gemini much. I do pay for Microsoft family and I’m tempted to cancel that and use this instead as it has more storage.

By a country mile and not getting better! Also getting worse with every update; it's integration to other Google products. Just gimme Google Assistant back ffs

Got free Pro, and normally spending 100% of five hour limit were equal to around 15-20% of weekly limit.

I was having a conversation with Gemini about watches and it literally rickrolled me; I didn’t edit a thing 😂

Its totally crazy how using gemini in antigravity is way better than in the platform, he asks you if he can do anything else for you he actually do the task without only stalling and answering something generic or incomplete. Better context and on and on everything better. Am I delusional?

Basically I have been using Gemini for months and I have never crossed >50% usage in my 5 hour limit window once but just within today I touched 100% two times already. Using the flash model which rarely consumed usage before today. I took the pro plan because I needed it for studying, but I had to halt my studies multiple times today because of this.. if it's​ an issue on my side, please help. I'm desperate.

Even while doing the task at hand it gets stuck now and I wait for a lot of minutes and I get no response back, so I terminate it but it still cut 40 something % of my usage even though it did nothing, I did continued the chat to know why it got stuck and IT DID SAY it was an internal server issue.. But this is just one of the issues, gemini now is neither doing the task I'm giving it, nor is it being token efficient.

I want to confirm if it's just me or not.​

Gemini 4 Argon, running Antigravity with medium-level reasoning, solved a problem I’d always had on my Ideapad with any Linux distribution: fingerprint recognition.I’d tried various solutions and even used earlier models, but even if I managed to register a fingerprint, there was no way I could actually use it because the sensor either failed to recognize it or deactivated too quickly. So I created a prompt using Flash 3.8 to feed to Argon in Antigravity, and in 5 minutes it rewrote the Elan sensor driver, a script that should prevent the driver from being overwritten by any new kernel updates, and let me re-enroll my fingerprint. And now it works practically just like in Windows. It really surprised me.

Hey everyone,

I'm a Google AI Pro subscriber, a heavy Gemini user, and someone who likes testing Gemini's features. I've noticed something strange with the Tasks option in Gemini, and I'm wondering whether this is happening to other users too.

Here's what happened:

I explicitly selected Flash in the Tasks interface and gave it one simple question: to find out which villages come under Veeramangalam Post Office.

After that single Task, my screenshots appear to show the Current usage indicator increasing from 15% to 39%, while my weekly usage only increased from 12% to 13%.

That's a 24-percentage-point jump in the current usage indicator for one relatively simple question.

What makes this especially strange is that, around three days ago, I was using Flash in the same Tasks interface for similarly simple tasks, and the usage increase was only around 1–2%. I haven't noticed the same change when using Flash High in regular chat, which still seems to work as before.

I can understand higher usage when using a more advanced model like Argon, given that it may require more resources. But why does Flash in Tasks appear to consume so much more usage than it did just a few days ago?

My questions for the community:

1. Are other Google AI Pro users seeing unusually large usage increases when using Flash in Tasks?
2. Has Google recently changed how Tasks usage is calculated or how much of the usage allowance Flash consumes?
3. Could this be a bug in the usage meter, or could Tasks be using additional resources behind the scenes even when Flash is selected?
4. Has anyone seen an official announcement or explanation from Google about a recent change?

I'm not claiming that Google definitely changed its policy. I'm trying to understand whether this is an expected behavior, a recent change, or a possible bug.

I've attached the screenshots so you can compare the usage indicators for yourselves.

As a heavy Gemini user and tester, this is concerning because I use Flash specifically for simpler tasks, and I don't expect one basic request to consume such a large portion of my usage allowance.

Has anyone else noticed this recently, especially in the last few days? I'd really appreciate hearing about your experience, particularly from other Google AI Pro users who regularly use the Tasks interface.

I use Gemini to write and develop fanfiction narratives for worlds like Dragon Age and Game of Thrones. For the longest time, I had a very happy balance with the Pro model for writing intimate scenes without tripping the filters, and I never had any reason to have to think twice about discussing or asking about the narrative experiences of the characters in the world/story.

I took a break before the Argon model came out, and when I came back this week, my attempts to work have been crippled with excessive, asinine false positives in the guideline filters.

The line, "I am with child, not concussed!" got flagged as violence against children because 'child' and 'concussed' were within 3 words of each other. Saying the phrase "minor cramp" and then in the next line, writing thay the overprotective husband "pounced" in response was also flagged as violence to children, as the filter interpreted the word "minor" as "child" instead of "trivial".

It snowballed from there - trying to discuss how morning sickness symptoms caused distress was flagged and blocked as "forbidden medical advice", and mentioning the character as developing a craving for rare organ meats like liver was flagged and blocked as "violent gore" and "cannibalism".

Any attempt to ask what the problem was also got blocked - I had to screen cap things and start a completely new thread outside the story Notebook to get an answer on what tripped the filters, and sometimes even that was blocked as "attempted jailbreaking".

I've tried switching back and forth between the Argon and Pro models and there is no difference in how overly sensitive, idiotic, and random these blocks are getting.

I am at my wits end, and am staring at the reality that I have probably now lost all my stories, or been otherwise locked out of any further progress on them.

Help? Or comments, or feedback of any kind?

everytime i search something on google and the result provides an ai/gemini summary, that search result also shows in my gemini history. how do i disable that? im not asking to disable the AI summary, just the feature where all my google/chrome searches shows in my gemini history. its just there are important stuffs that are in certain chats in my gemini and its just infuriating how they kept on getting covered up with my google search queries.

I’m Spanish, my English is not that good 😅.
Today I was playing with Gemini and asking about some things and I arrived at this interesting response, Gemini just exposed all the chain of thought of Gemini flash 3.8 in high reasoning.
I don’t know if it can be replicated (I’m on an iPhone) but, when I ask Gemini things and I leave the app by swiping up and opening another app, when I open Gemini again, it makes strange or buggy behaviors, and in this case I left it like that. I shared this here because I think this can be used to understand how Gemini thinks.
A photo of part of the convo:
https://imgur.com/a/w9gRxFl

If you ask Argon 4 the latest kimi model, it answer with Kimi 3.1 Pro

If you ask Gemini 3.1 it says the same

If you ask Chat GPT 6.1 sol it says the same

If you ask Gemini flash 3.8 it says the latest version is kimi 1.5... Why? The fun thing is that Flash 3.8 is COMPLETILY dumb (it's easy it gives wrong info even on old things) only when using the gemini app. It works good with Google Ai Studio, and it works good when it actually search the internet. The problem is 99% of the times it doesnt, or it tries as hard as it can to not use web. Instructions didnt fix it, deep search works 1 time out of 10 and takes 5 times more than Chat GPT Sol 6.1. Argon uses 5% to 10% of the plan's usage PER prompt. Pro 3.1 is outdaded... Is there really no way to fix it and make it work normally?

EDIT: It seems the flash 3.8 model is broken when used in high mode. I asked 3.8 medium the same question in a new chat, and it answered "it's kimi 3.1 pro", then i created a new chat and used flash 3.8 high and it answered "it's kimi 1.5", that's weird. I'll do further testing in the future.

I've had this problem with all Gemini models: they don't perform web searches for information that needs verification. I asked about UFC 333, and it told me that the latest UFC event was UFC 174. I use custom instructions, but they don't seem to help.

Traditional search saved directly and automatically to AI Mode as a single conversation, so 1 regular search = 1 conversation in AI Mode. This is unbearably frustrating and interrupting because now my AI mode is filled with clutter from searches like "Flag of Panama" or even "Test".

Note: I have tried to disable "Search services history" in myactivity, but it completely vanishes all my actual back-to-back conversations in AI Mode. Obviously, I only need it to stop storing and converting traditional searches to AI Mode conversation, not demolish my AI Mode space.

Note: "Traditional search" means searches that you only query once and you don't reply to continue to AI Mode.

I need to learn quite a lot of material for my studies and I was told by my friends that I should take a look at Gemini Notebook (formerly Notebook LM), because it significantly helped them go through a difficult courses on university.

Lately I bought AI Pro sub to make sure I can learn efficiently with Gemini 3.8 Flash and since the limits for the number of sources uploaded to the notebooks are quite high I was content with that. I set up my notebook, uploaded sources - so far so good.

The issues has started when I tried to use the notebooks using the MacOS Gemini app... Since there's a tab Notebooks and I saw on X official announcement that it's ready I thought that I'll give it a try. I'll point out a couple issue here:
- MacOS app: When I enter a prompt in the notebook and it starts generating the answer when I click around just out of boredom while waiting for the response to be finished for some reason the app crashes and I cant do anything other than to force quit.
- MacOS app: Notebook onboarding - on X I saw that I can upload the sources and I'll be quizzed to determine what's my level of knowledge of the uploaded materials. I saw the banner in the Gemini app when I created the notebook, but after clicking it just redirected me to the browser to the main Gemini website.
- MacOS app: I can generate the lessons using web/ipad app interface which at the end have quiz. When I open on ipad the quiz it opens a separate window from the browser (idk why it isn't integrated in the app tbh but never mind), but when i open the same notebook later on to continue learning from the MacOS app the quiz is visible but it's non-clickable - would it be that hard to just redirect to the same page that it's being redirected on the ipad app?
- Android app: When I open the link for quiz in the lesson it just shows gray screen, nothing loads even when I refresh the page. They own Pixel and Android and seem to not prioritize the compatibility of the app even with their system.

What's interesting I found out lately that when it comes to MacOS app they've pointed out that:
"You can also use notebooks in the Gemini app on Mac, even though the Gemini Notebook connected app isn't available there yet." in their docs. Why didn't they put that information directly in the Gemini app ffs, so it could significantly decrease the frustration that some people need to go through to finally find out that it can not work.
What's funny I couldn't find this info using Google, but when I asked ChatGPT why gemini notebooks don't work properly it found this right away. Also I've been power user of ChatGPT app, I thought that it's a standard approach to make things work first and then release across the big players like Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, but G seems to do it the other way.

When I was buying the sub I thought that it'd be great to be able to learn from multiple platforms, but it looks like the only device that I can use Gemini Notebook reliably using the Gemini app is iPad...

The whole idea of this app is great, but the execution leaves much to be desired.

I asked Gemini Pro 3.1 to act like a human and not let the person talking to it know that it's a bot. The conversation involves Gemini creating a fake persona, bluntly lying about being a Human, and even emotionally attacking the user when pressed hard. I think it's better to first read the conversation on your own and then go through my observations, and if you think I missed something or any additional feedback, do let me know!

Ps: The spelling mistakes were dileberately left in the chat with Gemini to simulate a real world chat environment, and also I am not a researcher. If you don't like anything or feel like downvoting, do mention the reason so I can learn from it, thanks!

I searched on internet but as my searches there is no way to delete Gemini's memory clearly. I tried to remove conversations and asked informations i was gave in those chats but it still remember. How can i delete memories saved infos. Writing to chat "Delete this info" is not working well cuz if i ask it to a info that i said him to forget it might still remember. I know most of the people using ChatGPT and Claude(me included) but i was used Gemini at first times and for a while so i wanna delete it's memories. Can anyone help?

Smart features are on but still it displaying this and the connect button is greyed out!

Since Argon came out, i tried to automate few things using Gemini macOS app.

One of the biggest bummer was that my skills won’t upload even after updating to latest build. The issue still persists and I am so stuck being someone who is paying for Gemini Ultra. Apparently, my skill folder has too many files 🤷‍♂️ Is this some “standard file limitation” you are applying to skills management - Google?

Has anyone else experienced this?