The Gemini shared avatar feature has taken a social step for personal avatars: users can now share their own avatar with friends so that two people can appear together in AI-generated images and videos. The announcement was made on October 29, 2026 by the Google Gemini (@GeminiApp) account on X and was covered by specialist press in the following days.
A personal avatar is created from recordings of the user's face and voice. According to Digital Trends, setup starts at gemini.google.com, under Add Files > More > Avatar, by scanning a QR code with a phone and recording a short video while speaking. After that, the avatar can be tagged in prompts with @ followed by the Google username.
To share, the avatar owner goes to Settings, opens the Avatar section and enters the invited person's Gmail address. The guest can accept or decline, and the owner keeps control: access can be added or removed at any time. When both sides share their avatars, both can appear in the same generated scene.
What changes in practice
- Avatars stop being only individual and start working in content shared between friends.
- A friend's avatar can be tagged in a prompt and included in a generated image or video.
- Access depends on an invitation and acceptance, and it can be revoked by the avatar owner.
Important limits
- The feature requires a personal Google account and a minimum age of 18.
- Current support is English only.
- It is not available in the European Economic Area, Switzerland or the United Kingdom.
- For video, coverage points to the need for a Google AI plan.
The central point of the feature is consent: nobody uses another person's avatar without an accepted invitation, and the owner can withdraw that permission at any time. Before generating content with someone's likeness and voice, it is worth confirming that access is still active.
Available coverage does not detail the price of the video plan, nor a timeline for other languages or regions. The consulted sources also contain no Brazil-specific announcement beyond the language and region limits already cited. Also on Geekiki: Gemini now edits documents, PDFs and spreadsheets inside the chat.
Image credit: illustrative image about Google Gemini's avatar feature, published by MondoAndroid. The image is not an official screenshot of the avatar-sharing announcement.
Sources: Digital Trends; Pasquale Pillitteri; WiseVoter. Original announcement cited by the coverage: post by the Google Gemini (@GeminiApp) account on X, on October 29, 2026.
Transparency: this article was produced with the help of artificial intelligence, cross-checked against public posts on X and the internet sources cited below. Readers are advised to consult the original sources to confirm details, timelines and availability.
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