Last month, Microsoft launched a standalone Copilot app for Android devices, which still exists alongside the Bing Chat app. It looks iOS and iPadOS have gotten their turn over the weekend, as Copilot is now also available on the Apple App Store.
There’s no version history to be found on the iOS version of the app, but based on the earliest reviews, this may have been added on 31 December. But, as is the case with Android, searching for Copilot will still being up Bing among the search results, with the former supposedly being the new rebranded identity of the latter.
That being said, Copilot on iOS is mostly in the same situation as on Android, which is to say that there’s no reason to prefer Bing over it, as both are virtually identical now following the rebranding. You can use Copilot for chatbot conversations, queries and prompts, generate images using DALL-E 3, as well as draft documents and emails. Both also give access to the GPT-4 model now, which is locked behind a paywall via ChatGPT.
The app is free to download, and you don’t need to sign in to be able to use its features. But because it is free, it should probably not be surprising if it has limitations when compared to the paid version of GPT4 via ChatGPT.
(Source: Apple)
