Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Restored After Weekend Bug on Android and iOS

Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking (experimental) is back after a bug temporarily removed it for mobile users.
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Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Restored After Weekend Bug on Android and iOS
Over the weekend, Gemini app users on both Android and iOS experienced an unexpected issue: the 2.0 Flash Thinking (experimental) model suddenly disappeared. Fortunately, the problem was identified as a bug, and by Monday morning, access to the model was restored. Let me walk you through the situation and what this means for the future of Gemini. Image:Google What Happened to Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking? The Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking (experimental) model was a significant part of Google's AI advancements. It debuted in December 2024 and was made available as an experimental feature in the Gemini app by February 2025. This model brought a new layer of reasoning and efficiency, and it was especially useful for those subscribed to the Gemini Advanced plan, which allowed access to a large context window of 1 million tokens. However, during the weekend of April 5, 2025, users of the Gemini app on Android and iOS lost access to this model. It simply vanished from the model picker, leaving onl…