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Gemini now lets friends put your face and voice in their AI images and videos
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On Oct 29, 2026 (about 1:15 PM MT), Google added personal avatars to Gemini. You record your face and voice once, then you, and anyone you share it with, can tag you in a prompt (like "@yourname singing with an orchestra") to put you in an image or video. 1,2
Who can use it
- 18 or older, signed in with a personal Google account (not a work or school one).
- Not available in the EEA, Switzerland or the UK for now, and English only. Canada and the US aren't excluded.
- Web, Android, iPhone and iPad. On a computer you still record with your phone (you scan a QR code).
- Video with your own avatar needs a paid Google AI plan. Google's page doesn't say images need one, or whether a friend needs a plan to make videos of you. 2
Before you share it
- Sharing lets that person make new images and videos with your likeness and voice. Share only with people you'd trust with a recording of you.
- They have to accept before they can use it.
- You can give each person an expiry date, and change or remove it later, in Settings › Avatar › Who can use your avatar. 2
How to take it back, and what that doesn't undo
- Remove one person: Settings › Avatar › Who can use your avatar, pick them, then Remove. They can't make anything new with you.
- But anything they already made is not deleted. Removing access only stops new images and videos.
- Delete your avatar: Settings › Personal avatar › Delete. Google says your recorded face and voice are removed from its systems, but content already made with it stays. 2
Good fits: family birthday videos, a group-chat joke, a small creator who wants a consistent on-screen character. Not a good fit: anyone you wouldn't hand a voice recording to.
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Last checked Oct 29, 2026.