Google recently updated the the Google Search application for Apple’s iOS platform and added a handful of new features.
Among the app’s new powers are the ability to perform voice-based searches with the “OK Google” search prompt. The Google Now functionality of the app now offers improved notifications for events like upcoming calendar appointments or travel changes. It offers new reminders for tasks, as well as entertainment reminders for new albums, movies, and articles containing the user’s favorite artists. Google Now includes more cards for organizing tickets and boarding passes. Last, the home page has been simplified and includes new gestures for discarding unwanted content.
The free Google Search app requires iOS 6 and up, and the iPhone 4S and up.
