Gemini can now book an Uber or order a DoorDash meal on your phone. Here’s how it works

It may be so A feeling that has been seen before.

A decade ago, companies like Google and Apple made promises that their voice assistants could complete tasks for you. Apple said Siri can request an UberTry it todayand Siri will open the Uber app. Google claimed you’d be able to “order my regular food” at Starbucks using Google Assistant, but the experience was slow, and Google eventually removed the feature.

But now, at age Large linguistic models and Amnesty International Who understands natural language, we see the same promises back on the table. in Samsung Galaxy Unpacked eventGoogle and Samsung showed how you’ll be able to use the Gemini voice assistant to complete tasks using a select number of third-party apps: booking an Uber, or ordering food through Uber Eats, DoorDash, or Grubhub. (Expect more app support later this year when Android 17 arrives.)

The feature – which is still in early preview – will only be available in the US and South Korea to start, starting with the Galaxy S26 smartphones when they launch on March 11, and later as a software update for Google Pixel 10 series. Here’s how it works.

Step by step

Photo: Julian Chocato

Photo: Julian Chocato

Ask Gemini to “bring me an Uber to the airport,” and you’ll see it open the Uber app in a virtual window. Gemini will still have this action running in the background, but you can monitor what it’s doing by tapping on the live notification. You’ll be able to see the entire process, although the idea is that you’ll leave it running in the background while you focus on something more important.

If she needs more information, for example, if you’re in the New York tri-state area and you’re not sure which of the three major airports you want to go to, she’ll come back to you and ask those questions. Once this is done, you will receive a notification and will be taken to the booking stage in the Uber app. Gemini won’t make the booking decision for you, so you’ll have to choose whether you want UberX or UberXL, confirm the price, and then hit “Book.”

“I refer to some tasks that you might want to automate as a kind of digital laundry, things that you know you need to do, but you’re not necessarily excited to finish,” Samir Samat, head of the Android ecosystem at Google, tells WIRED.