- Google has launched Mithun Home Screen Widget for Android and iOS devices
- Widget allows users to reach Gemini AI features with a tap
- Widgets are adaptable and allow users to prioritize their most commonly used Gemini functions
If you like to use Google Gemini on your smartphone, but find tired to tap several times to get your intended feature, Google has covered you. Tech giant has started rolling out the Mithun Home Screen Widget for both Android and iOS. This means that a single tap can launch correctly in interaction with Gemini, a voice can open a microphone for conversation, share a file with AI, or even snap a picture with camera that would be right for Gemini.
The rollout is gradually happening but widely happening. If you are running Android 10 or higher, you can already add Gemini widgets by pressing on your home screen for a long time, exploit “widgets”, find Gemini on the list, and you can pull it wherever you want to live. For iOS 17 and up, this is a similar story: grab your home screen to the icon, tap on the plus button, search for Gemini, and add the widget of your choice. You can customize it by pressing it again for a long time and shortening or rearving, which already appear, such as a microphone for voice chat or camera button for visual search.
This update is not necessarily groundbreaking, but it speaks in the way many people can use Gemini for small activities or functions, but do not want to immerse themselves more than necessary.
If you use Gemini every day to ask questions, make fun images, plan trips or brainstorming emails, it can make AI a little more convenient. The fact is that it is also close that the Siri and the fast dissolved Google Supporting function is probably not a coincidence.
These are not the first mobile widgets of Gemini. Google released a very similar Gemini widget for iPhone lockscreen a few months ago. Although functionally very similar, they are technically a different form of widgets. Google is gradually rolling the home screen Gemini Widget in the next week, so you may have a lock screen version available right now.
Widgets also provide a glimpse in Google’s strategy to infect Gemini in our daily life. They want people to think of AI, not only something you call occasionally, but as a day-to-day equipment that is immediately and easily accessible. Instead of lending to the background, Gemini becomes a part of the interface.
Starting with mobile devices is a smart step to feel Gemini feel like a core service. Many people first try new technology features and products on mobile devices, not their laptop or desktop computer. If they prefer it on a mobile device, it will probably translate into desktop use. And if you are going to use AI on your phone, it should be quick and casual, such as checking the season or time.
Gemini widgets are quite basic at the moment, but they set the foundation for more complex widgets to come. Imagine a future widget that can complete the ongoing conversation to the surfaces so that you can eliminate a disrupted project, or a one that shows the real -time update from the custom themes you follow, or even provide active suggestions based on your habits.
In all, these are less about new widgets and whistles and more about removing friction. They aim to give Gemini a fast, more indigenous sentiment in your daily habits, whether it is on Android or iPhone. Widget may be that the veg Gemini needs to fulfill every small request, handling the AI assistant.
