Google's AI comes to your iPhone: here's how you can use it starting today

Any artificial intelligence tool that wants to succeed must be on all platforms, even when it comes to products from Google, Microsoft, or Apple. If you want to feed your AI and provide it with data and users, you cannot close doors. And Google has understood this well with its artificial intelligence Gemini.

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As we mentioned, the new Gemini app from Google has arrived on iPhone, specifically in the App Store this week. The free app is simple and straightforward: it’s just a chat window and a list of your previous chats.

You can consult the bot with text, voice, or your camera, and it will give you answers. It is practically identical to the Gemini section of the Google app, or to what you would get by opening a browser and accessing the Gemini website.

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The Gemini app has a new feature which is access to Gemini Live, the bot’s most interactive and conversational chat mode, similar to ChatGPT’s voice mode.

Gemini Live has been available on Android for a few weeks, but this is the first place where it has been usable for iPhone owners. In my brief tests so far, it works very well, and when you’re using Live, it appears both in the iPhone’s Dynamic Island and on your lock screen.

But Live will end up being everywhere. When the next version of Gemini is released, it will be too. The goal of the Gemini app is to place the icon on the home screen and offer you something to assign to the action button or any other quick access point on the phone. With a tap and half a second, you can be chatting with the bot. That access, and the muscle memory it helps create, are crucial for any company that wants users to get used to chatting with bots.

Like all other chatbots that are not Siri, Gemini has some significant limitations on your phone. It cannot change settings or access other apps. But it can access other Google apps, which remains Gemini’s great advantage. You can ask Gemini to play music, and it will show you YouTube Music. You can ask for directions, and it will send you to Google Maps

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This is a small glimpse of what Gemini hopes to be on Android, and what Apple is trying to do with Siri: using AI to make everything on your phone a bit more interactive and accessible.