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Update: Google officially announces Assistant for iOS devices
July 13, 2025
Update, May 17:During the Google IO keynote today, Google just confirmed that Assistant will hit iPhone and other iOS devices in the coming days.
Original post, May 15:Google Assistantmay be expanding its reach to another operating system. A new report says that Google’s voice command digital assistant will be coming “soon” to Apple’s iOS. The official reveal could come this week as part of the2017 Google I/Odeveloper conference.
The report comes fromAndroid Police, citing unnamed sources. The story didn’t have much in the way of details about the iOS version of Google Assistant, but it did say that it will “likely” combine its voice command features with the chat functions found on theGoogle Alloversion of Assistant.
Google first launched Google Assistant in October 2016 with the launch ofAndroid 7.0 Nougatand itsPixelandPixel XLsmartphones, and it was also included with itsGoogle Homeconnected speaker. Assistant has since expanded its reach to more devices, including allAndroid Marshmallow and Nougatsmartphones. It is also comingto some Android TVdevices and earlier today, the company confirmed that it will be built into Androidfor some car infotainment systems. Oddly, the company confirmed a few weeks ago that Google Assistantwould not be enabled for Android tablets.
If this story is accurate, it will be very interesting to see how Google Assistant works on Apple’s iPhone, which already has its own Siri voice assistant built into iOS. Microsoft has also launched a version of its own digital assistant, Cortana, for both iOSand Android.
Stay tuned as we will have lots more first-hand reports of Google’s big announcements as part of our coverage of Google I/O 2017 this week, starting on Wednesday, May 17.
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