Google Gemini Spark now uses your saved Chrome passwords

Google published the July edition of Gemini Drops on Friday, and the headline claim is that Gemini Spark is now available worldwide. A footnote on the same page takes most of that back. Spark still does not run in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland or Nigeria.

What Spark actually does

Spark is Google's personal AI agent. Instead of answering one question at a time, it works through tasks over longer stretches and keeps its own schedule. Google's examples include cleaning up an inbox, summarizing newsletters, unsubscribing from mailing lists and running research with cited sources. The agent keeps working after you close your laptop. To do that it pulls information from connected apps, from your chat history, from sites you are signed in to, and from location data.

Chrome auto browse reaches into your saved passwords

A day before the Drop, Google connected Spark to Chrome. The feature is called Chrome auto browse. With your permission, Google says, Spark can use your logged-in accounts and saved passwords to handle tedious web errands, such as scheduling viewings for apartments you saved or researching flights and starting the booking process.

Google names two safeguards. The agent is meant to resist prompt injection, the trick of hiding instructions inside a web page so that an AI agent follows them. And for sensitive steps such as payments, Spark hands the task back to you. Chrome auto browse is rolling out in the United States first, with more regions promised later.

Where Spark runs, and what it costs

Google's own help pages are blunt about the gaps. Spark is available "everywhere Gemini apps are supported, with the exception of the European Economic Area, Nigeria, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom". Google gives no reason for the exclusion.

The subscription question is messier. In the United States, a Google AI Pro or AI Ultra plan is enough. Everywhere else, Google's English help page still asks for the pricier Ultra plan, even though the company announced Pro access in more than 160 additional countries on 30 July. The documentation has not caught up.

The remaining requirements are straightforward. You must be 18 or older, signed in with a personal Google account rather than a work or school account, and Activity saving has to be switched on. Spark runs in the Gemini mobile app, in the Gemini app for macOS and in the web app at gemini.google.com.

Google adds a warning of its own. Be careful what you type directly into a task thread, and do not schedule tasks you consider confidential.

What everyone gets

The rest of the July Drop is not restricted. Gemini now takes voice input on macOS in any active window, so you can dictate text, rewrite a selection or generate an image. Gemini 3.6 Flash and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite are live, and Google says both answer faster and reason better. There is also a new avatar that drops you into any image without uploading a photo again, plus connections to Dropbox, Zillow Rentals and Viator. The heavily personalized image generation stays in the United States for now.