Google Gemini AI launches as a standalone app on iOS
Since its launch, Gemini on iOS has been housed inside the Google app, the place customers needed to navigate to the “Gemini” tab to entry it. Google even up to date the homescreen widget in September, permitting customers to achieve Gemini straight from their iPhone residence screens. Now, with the standalone Google Gemini app, customers might not want these workarounds to have interaction with Gemini AI.
The Gemini app isn’t merely a replica of what’s already accessible within the Google app; it features a new characteristic known as “Gemini Reside.” This characteristic might enable Gemini to function in real-time as customers multitask, providing voice interplay and a hands-free expertise whereas they transfer by different apps.
Restricted launch within the Philippines, with a broader launch anticipated
At the moment, the standalone Google Gemini app is just accessible within the Philippines, the place choose customers have been capable of obtain and take a look at it. Customers within the U.S. and different areas report seeing a message within the App Retailer that reads, “This app just isn’t accessible in your nation or area.” This means Google is conducting regional testing earlier than increasing availability globally, a standard follow for its new options.
Why Google is giving Gemini AI its personal app on iOS
By giving Gemini AI its personal standalone app, Google can expedite updates and improve options particularly for iOS, which ought to create a extra refined and responsive consumer expertise.
As Google Assistant can be a standalone app on iOS, it’s no shock to see Google pursuing an analogous path for Gemini AI. If testing is profitable, this standalone Gemini app might carry superior AI instruments on to iOS, permitting iPhone customers to take pleasure in a personalised and dynamic AI expertise with new options like Gemini Reside.