You can regenerate drafts for a Gemini app's responses and also modify its responses. For example, you can adjust the length, simplify the language and change the tone of a response.
Regenerate a response
Important: You can regenerate only the most recent response in a chat.
- At the top of the response, click View other drafts or Show drafts.
- After the drafts, click Regenerate drafts
.
Modify an entire response
- Below the response, click Modify response
.
- Choose how you want the response to change:
- To adjust the length: Click Shorter
or Longer
.
- To simplify the language: Click Simpler
.
- To change the tone: Click More casual
or More professional
.
- To adjust the length: Click Shorter
Modify part of a response
Important: This feature is available for English responses only. Some responses and parts of responses can't be modified. Also, this feature is available in the Gemini web app on a desktop only.
- In a response, select the text that you want to change.
- Next to the selected text, click Modify selected text
.
- If you don't find Modify selected text
- If you don't find Modify selected text
- Choose how you want to change it.
- To modify it in your own words: In the 'Modify with a prompt' field, enter how you want the selected text to change and hit Enter.
- To regenerate the selected text: Click Regenerate
- To adjust the length: Click Shorter
- To remove the selected text: Click Remove
.
Tip: If you don't like the change, click Undo .
If there isn't a pencil icon next to your selection, it means that the selected text can't be modified. Currently, you can't modify:
- Any text in responses from extensions
- Any text in responses where code was used to generate the result, like text in charts
- Any text in responses that contain code blocks
- Any selection that contains any images
After you select text in a response, there's an option to modify it with a prompt. For certain requests, you might get a 'Gemini couldn't do that' error. The most common causes of this error are the following types of prompts:
- Prompts that don't tell the Gemini app how to modify the selected text, like 'how's the weather today'
- Prompts that ask for unsupported text formatting changes, like colour or size
- Prompts that violate our Prohibited use policy
- Prompts that ask for a change that the Gemini app can't understand or isn't able to make
If you believe that your prompt isn't any of these types, try to adjust your text selection or reword your instruction.