Gemini 2.5 Flash Missing File Upload For Free App Users

Over the past day or so, free Gemini app users have lost the ability to upload files when using Gemini 2.5 Flash (preview).

On Android and iOS, opening the ‘plus’ menu reveals how Files and Drive are grayed out. Meanwhile, the website just shows the image upload button. As such, you can’t analyze documents, Talk Live with, or generate Audio Overviews, which expanded to 45+ languages this week.

2.0 Flash and 2.5 Pro (preview) still allow for file upload, with the latter being the closest alternative. However, free users face usage limitations. File upload in 2.5 Flash remains available for paid Advanced users today.

File uploads not being available in Gemini 2.5 Flash should just be a bug that hopefully gets resolved earlier than Monday.

L-R: 2.0 Flash, 2.5 Flash, 2.5 Pro