How to Fix Google Antigravity Stuck on "Setting Up Your Account"

Nov 19, 2025

Non-US regions can also work, but you can’t be in a region where Gemini isn’t supported (like Hong Kong or Macau). If you want to be among the first to try new AI models and products, the US is still your best bet.

Today (2025-11-19), Google released the Gemini 3 Pro model along with a brand-new AI code editor called Antigravity. The tool was built by former Windsurf core team members on top of Windsurf’s codebase — you can still spot quite a bit of legacy code floating around.

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In July 2025, Google hired Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen, and several researchers to join DeepMind, while also securing a non-exclusive license to parts of Windsurf’s technology. The deal totaled $2.4 billion, primarily for talent acquisition and technology licensing — not a full acquisition of the company.

Previously, OpenAI had attempted to acquire Windsurf for $3 billion, but the deal fell through.

After the launch, I kept getting stuck on the “Setting Up Your Account” screen right after logging in. I even tried using Mihomo (a popular proxy client) in TUN mode (a system-wide proxy mode), but that didn’t help either. After digging through community discussions, I found out the issue was tied to the account’s associated region.

Visit https://policies.google.com/terms — if it says “Hong Kong,” congratulations, you won’t be able to use Antigravity.

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Antigravity restricts access for regions where Gemini isn’t supported. But here’s the catch: Gemini only checks your IP address, while Antigravity goes a step further — it checks both your IP and your Google account’s associated region.

With that understood, the solution is straightforward:

  • Register a new Google account from a US network environment
  • Transfer your existing Google account to a US region

Transferring Your Google Account Region

  1. Submit a region change request at: https://policies.google.com/country-association-form

  2. Select the United States, pick any state, choose Other Reason, and explain that you need access to Google AI products. For example:

    I need to use Google Gemini and Antigravity, which requires a US-based account context.

In my experience, the approval email came through in about 30 minutes. A word of advice: don’t pick any other reason for the transfer — those tend to get rejected.

Summary: Getting Antigravity to Work

  1. US proxy node + TUN mode
  2. A US-based Google account — verify at https://policies.google.com/terms. If it doesn’t show the US, follow the region transfer steps above.

From what others in the community have shared, non-US regions like Japan also work. Personally, I just went with the US for simplicity.

Gemini in Chrome

Unlike Antigravity, it hasn’t been confirmed yet whether non-US accounts can use this feature. If you can’t enable it, consider transferring your account region to the US.

With a US Google account set up, you can also enable Gemini in Chrome — giving your browser a built-in Gemini AI assistant. It’s quite handy for things like quickly summarizing a web page.

  1. Change your browser language to: English (United States)

  2. Go to chrome://flags/ and enable Glic and Tabstrip Combo Button.

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  3. Restart your browser — you’ll see a new Gemini icon in the top-right corner.

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I had to switch Chrome to English (United States) before Gemini showed up. Some people say it also works with Chinese — go figure.

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