The new AI-driven Google News app comes to iOS

At its recently concluded I/O event, Google had teased a new Google News app powered by AI, and today that app has been released for iOS users across 127 countries. The revamped app will supplant the former app - the Google Play Newsstand.



The company's idea behind the new app is to make the news search easier and at the same time provide an experience tailored to each reader. The effort is also to make it more supportive of media publications. The AI factor comes into play when the news is personalised and customised as per the respective user. The AI is integrated such that it will learn fro+m your news preferences and provide you with news items of your interest. This will lead to a better selection of content as time goes by. The clean layout of the Google News app will help attract more users.

There are four sections in the app. When you open the app, you'll see a customised 'For You' tab that will quickly give you the top five stories “of the moment” along with a preference-based selection of opinion articles and other longer news items of interest below it.

'Headlines'- the next Google News section will give you a more compendious view of the current news spanning across various news segments, including global, sports, technology among others. There’s also a 'Full Coverage' mode, which gives you a wide selection of content around a topic like editorial and opinion pieces, tweets, videos and a timeline of events.

The 'Favorites' section gives the starring news topics. You can select your preferred news sources, save stories for Pocket-style reading afterward, and save locations and text-based searches for later too.

'Newsstand' is the last section of the new Google News app. With this new addition to the app, users can subscribe to media organizations who either offer a monthly subscription for web/print access or charge a monthly fee to bypass a web paywall.

News agencies/organisations in this section all support the Google AMP standard, which means the pages will load in quick and clean fashion without bouncing you first through a mobile browser.