Gemini Deep Research Now Rolling Out To IPhone App

Earlier this month, Google launched Deep Research in Gemini for Android, and it’s now rolling out to the iPhone app if you’re a Gemini Advanced subscriber.

Deep Research “uses advanced reasoning and long context capabilities to act as a research assistant, exploring complex topics and compiling reports on your behalf.” It is Gemini’s first “agentic” feature and launched for gemini.google.com in December.

You start by asking a research question, which can be as long as needed and contain multiple parts. Gemini will then respond with a multi-step plan that you can change and delete parts of. 

After tapping “Start research,” Gemini will take 5-10 minutes on average to search the web, look through sites, and perform new searches based on what it has learned. This process repeats several times.

More complex reports will take longer to complete, and you can leave/close the app once research has started. The Gemini app will send a notification once it’s complete. Alternatively, you can check the Chat history to access again. 

You then get a report organized into sections with tables (when relevant) and sources listed at the bottom. There’s also the convenient ability to export to Google Docs. 

Additionally, there are limits for “Daily research requests” and “Number of research requests you can run at the same time.” The Gemini app “notifies you how many research requests are left for the day.”

Deep Research is currently powered by Gemini 1.5 Pro. Google will presumably use 2.0 Pro once that exits the experimental phase, but it’s unclear when that upgrade will happen.

In the model picker at the top of the iPhone app, you’ll find “1.5 Pro with Deep Research” alongside Gemini 2.0 Flash, the new 2.0 experimental models and the 1.5 family, which is going away in a few weeks. 

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