Bing Chat gets its own widget on iOS

You can now summon Bing Chat from your iPhone’s home screen.

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What you need to know

Microsoft rolled out a few new features and improvements to Bing Chat this week. The AI-powered chatbot is now easier to access on iOS devices, thanks to a new widget that is available. Voice support for the tool has been expanded to work with over 30 additional languages.

Performance when using your voice to search on mobile should be improved as well. In addition to performance improvements of voice search, Bing Chat will now indicate that it is listening after you tap it.

Microsoft outlines all of the changes in itsBing Blog:

Bing Chat already had a widget on Android. It’s also possible to interact with the tool using yourvoice on a desktop. You can also useBing Chat directly within Skypeif that’s your messaging app of choice.

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