Gemini felt dumb on October 26, 2025.

I paid for an Ultra subscription hoping to get watermark‑free images, but even after the recent stability fix Nano Banana still slaps a logo on everything. It feels like I’m being ripped off—$270 a month for a tool that still hides my results. I’m left wondering if there’s a hidden setting I missed or if I’m just out of luck.

I tried using the Gemini app on iOS and it constantly let me down. Whenever a conversation grew large or included files, or even after I rebooted my phone, the chats would freeze on a loading screen and never opened. The syncing was already shaky, and these random lock‑ups made the experience incredibly frustrating—I felt the tool was unreliable and unusable.

I’ve noticed a surge in internal‑error messages lately, and it’s been forcing me to hit refresh way more often than before. Every time I try to get a simple answer, the tool just crashes or stalls, breaking my flow and making me feel irritated. The constant retries waste time and make the experience feel unreliable and frustrating.

I tested Gemini’s new audio upload by feeding it Pink Guy’s “Club Banger 3000.” I even renamed the file to hide the joke, but the AI called the track “serious” when it’s obviously a goofy, meme‑heavy piece. It only nailed the random “Hey!” sample and missed the whole vibe. The mismatch was disappointing and made the tool feel clueless about music context.

I tried Nano Banana on a different provider and noticed that prompts which usually get blocked in AI Studio now go through. I was curious to see if this change was just me, so I ran the same tests and got the same result—less censorship, though it still blocks NSFW content. The shift felt surprising but not game‑changing.

I tried using Gemini’s new interface on my phone hoping it would be as accessible as Google Assistant, but it was a nightmare. The screen is cluttered with tiny buttons and endless text, and TalkBack keeps cutting off Gemini’s audio with no easy way to restart it. The design feels completely broken for blind users, leaving me frustrated and unable to use the service.