Add & customize your Gemini widget

You can start chats with Gemini faster with shortcuts on your home screen or lock screen. With a Gemini widget, you can:

  • Open Gemini with
  • Open directly to Gemini live with .
  • Open Gemini and the microphone so you can say your prompt
  • Open the camera in Gemini to take a picture
  • Open Files to upload a file in Gemini
  • Open your images to upload a photo

What you need

To use Gemini widgets, make sure:

  1. Your device has iOS 17 or up.
  2. You’ve downloaded the Gemini app.

Add the Gemini widget to your home screen

Add the Gemini widget to your home screen

  1. On your iPhone or iPad, touch and hold the home screen.
  2. At the top left, tap Edit and then Add widget.
  3. Search for the Gemini app  and tap it.
  4. Choose your widget options and tap Add widget.
  5. Place the widget on your home screen.
  6. At the top right, tap Done.

Customize your Gemini widget 

  1. On your iPhone or iPad, touch and hold Gemini .
  2. Tap Edit widget.
  3. Choose the actions to display on your widget.
  4. Tap Close and thenDone.
  5. To exit customization mode, tap the lock screen.

Start chats with Gemini from your lock screen

Add the Gemini widget to your lock screen

To add Gemini as a lock screen widget:

  1. From the lock screen of your iPhone or iPad, press and hold an empty area on screen
  2. At the bottom, tap Customize and then Customize Current Wallpaper and then Add widgets.
  3. Scroll to select Gemini, then choose the option you want to add.
On iOS 18 and later, to add Gemini as a lock screen control:
  1. From the lock screen of your iPhone or iPad, press and hold an empty area on screen
  2. At the bottom, tap Customize and then Customize Current Wallpaper.
  3. Choose a current control icon to remove, then tap Add add .
  4. Scroll to find Gemini, then choose the option you want to add.
Tip: You can also access the lock screen when your phone is unlocked. To open it, swipe down from the top-left part of the screen.
On iOS 18 and later, to add Gemini to your control center:
  1. On your iPhone or iPad, swipe down from the top right edge of the screen.
  2. Press and hold in the empty space below your Control Center icons.
  3. At the bottom, tap Add a Control add .
  4. Scroll to select Gemini, then choose the option you want to add.
Tip: You can add multiple Gemini icons to your Control Center. You can also drag from the bottom right of the icon to change the size in your Control Center.

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