Gemini Spark becomes Task in the main chat interface

Your move: Existing tasks and schedules carry over; the Android help page still says Spark

Google's Gemini Apps help page now describes starting a task from the same place you start a chat: below the text box, click Task. The rename replaces the Spark name in the main interface while keeping existing tasks, threads and schedules, which still appear in the sidebar and on the Scheduled page. 9to5Google first spotted the change on October 12 as a server-side rollout on Android, where Spark history and schedules were combined into one page.

The requirements are unchanged: you need a personal Google Account (not work or school) with a Google AI Pro or Ultra subscription, Keep Activity on and Personal Intelligence opted in. Tasks remain unavailable in the European Economic Area, Nigeria, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, and Google still caps you at 15 tasks running at a time. The Android version of the same help page still uses the Spark wording, so the rollout has not finished everywhere.

Why it matters

This is a rename and interface change, not a new agent: the same task feature moves into the prompt box where chats already start. If you already use Spark, your tasks and schedules carry over and the paid-plan requirement is the same. Because the rollout is incomplete, Google's own pages may disagree for a while; treat the desktop and web help page as the current wording.

Source: Google Gemini Apps Help ↗

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