In the AI chatbot world, ubiquity is everything. Companies have raced to build desktop and mobile apps for their bots, in order to both give them new capabilities but also to make sure they’re right in front of your face as often as possible.

Google AI is now no longer limited to Google platforms. While iPhone users could previously access Gemini through the web, the iPhone now has a fully fledged Gemini app, complete with exclusive iOS features not present on Android.

Alphabet's Google on Thursday released a smartphone app for its artificial intelligence chatbot on Apple's App Store that introduced the latest generation of its voice assistant to the popular mobile operating system.