After including lockscreen, Management Middle, and Motion Button shortcuts final month, Google is updating Gemini on iPhone with homescreen widgets.
There are two accessible, with the primary being a sq. and a 2×2 grid of icons. The Gemini sparkle within the top-left nook opens the app and your keyboard. In comparison with the opposite circles, this one is denoted by a faint define. The icon is blue/purple if you happen to’re a free Gemini person, whereas it’s a bit extra pink for Superior subscribers.
In the meantime, the microphone permits you to begin dictating a immediate. The digital camera icon launches Gemini’s viewfinder to take an image and add it to your immediate, whereas the ultimate button opens the fullscreen Gemini Dwell expertise.
The second widget is rectangular with a pill-shaped “Ask Gemini” bar that features the microphone on the proper. The 2 new actions within the row under are for the system file picker to add a doc, whereas the one subsequent to it opens your gallery.
Gemini’s new homescreen widgets are styled after the Google (Search) app, and have been an enormous characteristic request. In the meantime, different customers need an iPad-optimized app, with Android tablets already that includes such an interface.
The Gemini homescreen widgets are rolling out with model 1.2025.1662203 as we speak.
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