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.

This new extension for Gemini finally brings the app up to par with your old Google Assistant in terms of basic functionality and more.

Google's flagship AI assistant, Gemini , is now officially available as a standalone application on the Apple App Store. The search giant's home-grown AI technology first debuted on the iPhone within the Google app, but Apple users can now access the chatbot platform via this new purpose-built interface.

The new Google Gemini Utilities extension adds the ability to manage alarms, control media playback, open apps, and more. Gemini can now do much of what Google Assistant has been able to do for simple on-device tasks.

Google Home is arguably the best smart home ecosystem out there. It is about to get even better now that Google has announced a massive fall update for everything from your Nest s

The Gemini Google Home extension offers a more conversational approach to smart home control. The extension is currently limited to Android users and requires enrollment in the Google Home Public Preview program. Google is continuously updating its suite of services to make them easier to use for users — take Google Home, for example.

It will let users create smart home automation by describing actions in simple language. Google has shed some more light on its upcoming Gemini-powered Google Home features. In its fall update announcement,

The Gemini Google Home extension offers a more conversational approach to smart home control. The extension is currently limited to Android users and requires enrollment in the Google Home Public Preview program.

It took Google years to make Google Assistant as useful as it was at its peak, and Gemini is looking to take its place. However, it hasn't been a graceful