Google today updated its Search app for iOS, addition a slew of innovative features for both the core hunt experience as well as Google Now. You can download the innovative version now straight from Apple’s App Store.
The update mainly focuses on Google Now. Here’s what’s new:
- Notifications – Get notify when it’s time to go.
- Reminders – Never remember to put out the waste.
- New cards – See Tickets, Boarding Passes & more.
- Handsfree voice – Just say “OK Google” to search – requires iPhone 4s or later.
First up, notification carry you information without you have to open the app. iOS users can now be learned when to go away for their subsequently appointment or event, if their flight is running late, and how to catch the last train home.
Reminders go additional by letting you request the app to stay in mind things for you. Google tender two examples: “Remind me to purchase coffee beans at Starbucks” and “Remind me to ensure out the fair this weekend” that will show reminders at the right time or place. You can also inquire to be reminded when your preferred musicians discharge a new album, TV show has a new episode, actors star in a new movie, celebrities and politicians make headlines, and so on by striking the “remind me” button after performing a search.
As for the innovative cards, Google Now can demonstrate you tickets for movies, concerts, and events, boarding passes for your flights, reservation confirmations for car rentals, warnings when your previous train home leaves, and list of upcoming local events. In other words, Google Now for iOS is receiving many (but not all) of the features Android users have been enjoying for a while now.
Google hunt for iOS is of course still very much about look up basic queries. Here’s what’s new for the search component:
- A redesigned and basic homepage.
- Gestures to zoom or throw away images.
- One touch signs in if you use other Google apps.
- Better voice over convenience.
We’ve been saying for a while now that Google look for iOS has been casing behind the Android version. This update doesn’t exactly bring the two to parity, but it’s surely a huge improvement for Apple users that narrows the gap.