Google is adding its artificial intelligence tool Gemini to the Chrome browser on iPhones and iPads across the US, meaning you'll be able to use Google's AI functionality in Chrome instead of having to go to the Google app on your devices.
The integration comes a few months after Google rolled out Gemini in Chrome to Windows and Mac desktop users in the US in September. At the time, the company said that it would eventually be doing the same thing with iPhones and iPads.
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Before now, if you wanted to use Gemini on your iPhone and iPad, you were not able to do so from Chrome -- you would have had to go to the Google app or Google website.
Folks using Android phones already have Gemini on their Chrome browsers, which is the default browser on Android devices.
Chrome is the most widely used web browser in the US; StatCounter said that as of November, Chrome had a 54% market share of browsers in the US, followed by Apple's Safari (28%) and Microsoft Edge (7%). There are other smaller browsers that people use to search the internet, including Firefox, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi and Arc.
Gemini is Google's family of AI products and competes with ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Anthropic's Claude, Perplexity AI, Mistral AI, Meta AI and Grok in the realm of chatbots, content creation and AI integration.
'Gap' has been filled
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Jason Howell, host of the Android Faithful Podcast and a former CNET staffer, said Google has filled "a noticeable gap" in AI for Chrome for the millions of iPhone and iPad users in the US.
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