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.

The Android app came out in February, but Apple users only got a limited integration within the main Google app, which doesn't have advanced capabilities such as Gemini Live.

On Thursday, Google launched the Gemini app on iOS, bringing the company’s chatbot and Gemini Live to your Apple phones for conversational AI. You can use it now, and if you’re still not impressed, then you probably shouldn’t hold out much hope for ...