Google already began rolling out Gemini widgets for iOS and is now including them for Android customers. Gemini is Google’s most superior giant language mannequin. As a multimodal mannequin, Gemini can each perceive and generate textual content, pictures, audio, video, and code. In iOS and Android, Gemini can reply your queries; with the brand new widgets, each iPhone and Android customers can rapidly and simply entry Google’s AI by simply integrating it into the usage of their smartphones.
To have the ability to entry the widgets, you are going to need to set up the Gemini app from the App Retailer for iOS, and from the Google Play Retailer for Android. As soon as you’ve got achieved that, you may add the widget to the suitable dwelling display. For instance, on iOS, lengthy press on some empty actual property on the house display till your apps go into “jiggle mode.” You may know when that occurs, belief me. As soon as your apps are in jiggle mode, faucet the Edit button within the high left of the show. From there, faucet “Add Widget,” and scroll down to seek out the Gemini widgets. Choose the one you need and faucet the “Add widget” button on the backside of the display.
Android customers can add the widget by lengthy urgent on an space of the house display with out an icon. A menu will pop up that may embrace “Widgets” as an possibility. Faucet on it and search for Gemini. Discover the widget you need and faucet on the +Add button on the backside of the display. A few of these widgets resemble those out there for Google Search.
Completely different widget layouts for the iOS model of Gemini. | Picture credit-Chrome Unboxed
Android customers must be operating model 1.0.751104895 of the Gemini app to see the widgets on their telephones. To seek out out which model of the app you have got put in, go to Settings > Apps > Gemini and scroll to the underside of the web page. Sadly, the model of Gemini on my Pixel 6 Professional is 1.0.741105040 which suggests I’ve but to obtain the replace. For iPhone customers, they must be operating model 1.2025.1662203 of the iOS Gemini app to see the Gemini widgets on their iPhones.
For those who plan on utilizing Gemini or ChatGPT to reply the questions you used to ask Siri or Google Assistant, it is nice to have each accessible by way of a widget faucet. On iOS, you can even entry ChatGPT by way of the Motion Button or the Visible Intelligence characteristic supplied on the iPhone 15 Professional, iPhone 15 Professional Max, the iPhone 16e, and the iPhone 16 collection. Simply remember that when utilizing AI apps like Gemini and ChatGPT to switch Siri and Google Assistant, they can not but arrange alarms or timers on request.
There’s a resolution, in fact. You’ll be able to all the time simply open the Clock app and manually set an alarm or timer.
