Google’s Gemini app is now accessible to obtain on the iPhone App Retailer — after being noticed in areas just like the Philippines a number of days in the past.
Beforehand unique to Android gadgets, the devoted app for the search large’s synthetic intelligence assistant permits customers to kind in prompts, leverage its multimodal capabilities, and even converse with Gemini Stay for extra pure exchanges. Notably, the Gemini app is a extra streamlined method for iOS customers to dial into Google’s AI chatbot, which beforehand required opening the extra generalized Google Search app to entry.
You’ll be able to obtain the Gemini app without cost by looking for it within the App Retailer, and the one requirement to make use of the AI options is a Google account. I have been testing the app for the previous hour, and it is practically equivalent in perform and person interface to its Android counterpart, which is nice to see. Actually, in case you’re on a Gemini Superior plan, which supplies you entry to a extra succesful Gemini 1.5 Professional mannequin and different cross-platform integrations, that, too, will perform the identical on the iOS app.
In contrast to the present model of Siri (even in case you’re on iOS 18), Google’s Gemini AI is noticeably extra succesful, with the power that will help you establish objects in photographs, play music on YouTube, and even fireplace up a Google Doc at your command.
I have to say, telling a voice assistant on an iPhone to start out a Google Maps navigation appears like essentially the most rebellious factor, but it surely’s working nice on my iPhone 16 Professional, and plenty of customers will probably recognize these expanded capabilities simply as a lot.
The draw back of utilizing Gemini on the iPhone is that it could’t alter or modify on-device settings and apps, like serving to you set alarms or swap to completely different focus modes. (You’ll be able to nonetheless use Siri for these, to be clear.)
Finally, the Google voice assistant’s devoted app makes it simpler for iPhone customers to entry it proper from their dwelling screens and, in the event that they’re feeling adventurous, through the Motion button. If the buy-in from shoppers is there, it is a main win for Google.