Overview

• Google says India is the top market for Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image), with Appfigures data showing a download surge that pushed Gemini to the top of free app charts and a 414,000 daily‑install peak on September 13 in India.
• The tool excels at fast, natural‑language edits that preserve likeness and can merge multiple uploads, powering trends from retro saree portraits and 3D figurines to photo restorations and festive Navratri looks.
• Google applies a visible diamond watermark and embeds SynthID metadata in generated images, and the company is testing a detection platform with trusted partners with a consumer version planned but no public rollout date.
• Privacy questions persist after reports of unexpected personalized details in outputs, and Google’s terms allow use of uploaded content to improve models unless users disable the AI training setting.
• Nano Banana is available in the Gemini app and Google AI Studio with limited free use that requires sign‑in, industry figures like NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang have praised the tool, and separate single‑source reports claim a WhatsApp bot integration and large cumulative edit counts.