Google is building a way to delete many Gemini chats at once

What Google appears to be building

Google seems to be preparing a way to delete several Gemini chats at once. As SammyGuru reported, the change turned up in a recent version of the Google app for Android. That means someone found work in progress inside the software, not that Google announced a launch.

The new piece is a Select option in the list of past conversations. According to the report, it appears when you press and hold a chat. It would let you pick a batch of conversations and remove them in a single action. Android Authority is credited with finding the work.

It is not available to everyone yet. The feature is still in development, and nothing suggests when the public might get it. Treat it as a sign of direction, not a promise with a date.

How deleting works today

Gemini keeps your earlier conversations in a side menu. Tap one and you return to that chat. Press and hold and a short menu appears, with options such as pinning the chat, sharing it or deleting it.

What is missing is any way to choose many chats together. Every deletion is its own trip through that menu. The report compares this with Gmail and many other apps, where you can select a group of items and clear them in one go.

The writer argues this gets tedious fast, because Gemini has largely taken over the job Google Search once did for most people, so histories pile up quickly. That is the outlet's view, not a measured figure. Still, the logic is easy to follow: the more you ask an assistant each day, the faster the clutter grows.

Why a tidy history is worth caring about

An old chat history is more than clutter. Conversations with an assistant often contain things you would never post publicly: work drafts, health questions, financial details, even customer information. The fewer of those sitting in your account, the less you have to think about later.

Easier deletion lowers the effort, and effort is usually what stops people. A chore that takes one tap per chat tends to get postponed forever. A chore that takes a few taps in total is far more likely to happen.

Business owners have an extra reason to pay attention. If employees use Gemini for work, check whether your workplace has rules about what may be typed into a chatbot. It is also worth asking whether those rules say anything about clearing old conversations.

What we still don't know

Several details are open. The report describes only the Android app. It says Google may be working on a similar option for Gemini's web version, but that is a possibility, not something confirmed. We have also not seen the change confirmed in Google's own documentation.

The report does not say how the select mode would look when finished, or whether it would include a shortcut to clear everything. It also does not say what happens to a deleted conversation behind the scenes. So treat deleting a chat as tidying your view of your history, and do not assume more than that.

Because the code was spotted before release, the plan could change. Features found this way sometimes arrive in a different form, or later than people expect.

What to do in the meantime

For now, clearing your history still means deleting each conversation individually. That is slow, but you can make it manageable.

• Start with the chats most likely to hold sensitive material, such as money, health or client details.
• Set a monthly reminder to remove conversations you no longer need.
• Avoid pasting anything into a chatbot that you could not stand to see retained.

If the Select option does arrive, a monthly clean-up should become a quick job instead of a long one.