- Google has launched Gemini’s home screen widgets for Android and iOS devices
- Widgets allow users to access Gemini AI functions with a single touch
- Widgets are customizable and allow users to prioritize their most used Gemini actions
If he likes to use Google Gemini on his smartphone, but he finds it tedious to play several times to get to the function he wants, Google has it covered. The technological giant has begun to implement the widgets of the Gemini start screen for both Android and iOS. That means that a single touch can start directly in a conversation with Gemini, open the microphone for a voice conversation, share a file with AI or even take a photo with the camera that will go directly to Gemini.
The deployment is happening gradually but widely. If you are running Android 10 or more, you can add Gemini’s widget by pressing long on your home screen, taking advantage of the “widgets”, finding Gemini on the list and dragging it wherever I live. For iOS 17 and more, it is a similar story: keep your home screen press until the icons move, touch the Plus button, seek Gemini and add your choice widget. You can also customize it again by pressing it in the long term and exchanging direct accesses or reorganizing what actions appear first, such as the microphone for voice chats or the camera button for visual searches.
This update is not necessarily innovative, but speaks of the way many people can use Gemini for short activities or tasks, but do not want to immerse themselves in it more than necessary.
If you use Gemini every day to ask questions, create fun images, plan trips or emails of rain of ideas, this could make access to AI a little more convenient. The fact that it is also closer to how Siri and the function of the Google assistant who dissolves quickly is not a coincidence.
These are not the first mobile widgets of Gemini. Google launched very similar Gemini widgets a couple of months ago for the iPhone block lock. Although functionally very similar, they are technically a different form of Widget. Google is gradually deploying Gemini’s widget from the home screen during the next week, so it is possible to have the lock screen variant available at this time.
Widgets also offer an idea of Google’s strategy to infuse Gemini in our daily lives. They want people to think about AI as not only something you call occasionally, but as a daily tool that is easy and easy accessible. Instead of stalking in the background, Gemini becomes part of the interface.
Starting with mobile devices is an intelligent movement to make Gemini feel more like a central service. Many people first prove new functions and technological products on mobile devices, not on their laptops or desktop computers. If you like on a mobile device, maybe that will translate into desktop use. And if you are going to use the phone, it must be fast and informal, such as verifying the weather or time.
Gemini widgets are quite basic at this time, but establish the basis for more complex widgets. Imagine a future widget that surface the continuous conversations so you can finish an interrupted project, or one that shows real -time updates of personalized topics that follows, or even offers proactive suggestions based on your habits.
In general, these new widgets are less about bells and whistles and more about eliminating friction. His goal is to give Gemini a faster and more native path of their daily habits, either on Android or iPhone. The widget can be the wedge that Gemini needs to comply with each small request that an AI assistant can handle.
