Google’s Gemini app for iOS and iPadOS now features a handful of lockscreen widgets that make it simpler (and quicker) to entry the AI assistant’s numerous options. As famous by 9to5Google, the app’s newest replace provides six widgets in complete, with every of them letting you hop proper into a specific Gemini operate.
The corporate appears to be making a really intentional effort to lure iPhone and iPad customers away from Siri — or not less than get folks utilizing Gemini as an alternative of OpenAI’s ChatGPT at any time when they wish to work together with a big language mannequin. Google has additionally lately been promoting Gemini on Apple-centric tech podcasts.
This all comes as Apple reportedly finds itself making gradual progress at creating a wiser, extra succesful Siri that may compete with at this time’s main AI platforms. Over the weekend, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported {that a} really overhauled Siri is probably going nonetheless a number of years away. So in case you’re Google, this full-court press to determine familiarity with Gemini within the meantime makes a whole lot of sense. Apple itself might supply Gemini as one more useful resource for Apple Intelligence within the coming months.
As for the widgets, right here’s what Google says each does:
