Google AI is now not restricted to Google platforms. Whereas iPhone customers might beforehand entry Gemini via the net, the iPhone now has a totally fledged Gemini app, full with unique iOS options not current on Android.
For essentially the most half, the Gemini app doesn’t work too in another way from the net interface, permitting you to view your previous chats with Google’s bot in addition to ask it to reply questions or generate AI artwork or assist with spreadsheets. What you get for utilizing the app as a substitute of your browser is Gemini Reside.
Reside has already been out on Android for just a few months now, first showing as a paid characteristic earlier than being made free for everybody. Billed as a solution to converse with Google’s AI, it’s sort of like utilizing speech-to-text, however with out having to press a microphone icon earlier than every query. Simply say your questions out loud, and Gemini will reply to them in actual time, incorporating context out of your earlier questions. Presumably, you may even interrupt Gemini or stumble over your phrases with out problem, though I’ve had combined outcomes whereas testing it out on a Pixel 9 Professional.
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Gemini on iPhone also can entry Gemini extensions, permitting it to drag data from different apps, though that was technically already obtainable on browsers. Unique to the iPhone app is a few intelligent use of the Dynamic Island. Whilst you’re speaking to Gemini, you’ll see icons within the Dynamic island indicating that Reside remains to be energetic and whether or not it’s listening to you. You’ll additionally be capable to pause or finish your chat straight from the Dynamic Island, or faucet to re-open the Gemini app as an entire. The identical performance is out there on the Lock Display, however placing Gemini Reside within the Dynamic Island is a helpful solution to hold monitor of the bot as you browse, since what it says out loud isn’t all the time correct. As an illustration, once I requested Gemini Reside to shut my chat, the bot mentioned it did however saved listening anyway. If I didn’t have Dynamic Island icons letting me comprehend it was nonetheless listening in, I wouldn’t have identified.
Gemini for iOS follows some higher Gemini integration in Google’s different apps, together with the flexibility to use Gemini to report street circumstances in Waze or to have Gemini curate prompt locations in Maps. Outdoors of the realm of AI, Google Maps additionally now permits you to seek for particular merchandise, so you may sort “PS5” into the app to see shops close to you that carry the console.
