I encountered this interesting error today while using Gemini Experimental 1206 in Google AI Studio with help for creative writing on a novel that I’m currently working on. The current conversation’s progress has only used up about 75,751 of the approximately ~2 million tokens available, and the last (retained) message in the conversation was typed using my computer (a laptop). This is the main device that I usually use AI Studio on.
Today, for the first time, while in my friend’s car, I decided to try using AI Studio via the website on my iPhone through Google Chrome. Oddly enough, I got pretty far into progressing our conversation via a series of messages sent on my phone, but it seems that all this progress was only stored ‘locally’, because when I accidentally refreshed the website on Chrome, when the page reloaded, it had wiped out all the messages and the latest message in our conversation history was the last one that had been sent via my laptop.
Surprisingly, I was able to replicate this issue at least two more times today. Once, I tried using AI Studio on my phone again when we stopped for groceries, and got deep into a second attempt at continuing our conversation and brainstorming ideas.
Then, when I got home and opened AI Studio on my laptop, the page had not changed since the last message I sent (via my laptop). I refreshed the page, and it was the same result. When I opened the page for AI Studio on Chrome on my phone once more, it refreshed the page, and it took me back exactly to where I started.
I’m curious to know if anyone else has had experience with this issue. It seems really surprising to me that Google would allow users to expend their compute resources on mobile sessions, but then fail to store any of the data from those mobile sessions in that prompt’s conversation history with the user—effectively making it a waste of their own resources.
I will probably try again to see if I can replicate this issue on my other (Android) phone tomorrow morning, since this has all happened on my iPhone, but I want to know if anyone else has experienced this problem thus far.