Meta now provides a dedicated iPhone and iPad app to converse with its AI chatbot based on the company’s Llama 4 large language model.
The Meta AI is a new name for Meta View, a companion app for the Meta smart glasses, which was refreshed today with integration with the company’s AI chatbot and a dedicated feed for AI hacks and prompts from the community.
Meta AI brings a personalized chatbot experience “that understands your preferences and interests,” according to the description. The app lets you conduct natural conversations with Meta AI to get answers, advice and inspiration, and comes with a built-in image generator to help you create, edit and restyle images.
Meta AI chatbot now has a dedicated iPhone and iPad app
You can issue requests by typing your prompt or using voice commands. Meta invites you to “open the app and just start talking.” The Llama 4 large language model is pretty good at parsing natural language, so you should be able to have natural back-and-forth conversations with the chatbot.
From the announcement:
Meta AI is built to get to know you, so its answers are more helpful. It’s easy to talk to, so it’s more seamless and natural to interact with. It’s more social, so it can show you things from the people and places you care about. And you can use Meta AI’s voice features while multitasking and doing other things on your device, with a visible icon to let you know when the microphone is in use.
Meta AI learns your preferences and interests for personalized responses, which are currently restricted to customers in the United States and Canada.
You can tell Meta AI to remember certain things about you (like that you love to travel and learn new languages), and it can also pick up important details based on context. Your Meta AI assistant also delivers more relevant answers to your questions by drawing on information you’ve already chosen to share on Meta products, like your profile, and content you like or engage with. And if you’ve added your Facebook and Instagram accounts to the same Accounts Center, Meta AI can draw from both to provide an even stronger personalized experience for you.
At launch, voice features were available in English in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, with support for additional languages and more countries coming in the future. The app includes a voice demo to test full-duplex speech technology in action.
This technology will deliver a more natural voice experience trained on conversational dialogue, so the AI is generating voice directly instead of reading written responses. It doesn’t have access to the web or real-time information, but we wanted to provide a glimpse into the future by letting people experiment with this.
Launching a dedicated AI chatbot app will help it compete more squarely with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, Anthropic’s Claude and xAI’s Grok.
How to download the Meta AI chatbot app
Meta notes that some of the new features may roll out slowly over time, so check back later if you don’t have them. You can download the Meta AI app for iOS and Android on Apple’s App Store and Google’s Play Store.
For feature parity, the Meta AI web interface was also updated with support for voice interactions, the new Discover feed and an improved image generation experience with more presets and new style, mood, lighting and color options.
AI chatbots in Meta apps
Meta already integrates its AI chatbot across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp and on the web at meta.ai. To push its chatbot, the company has disabled the Apple Intelligence features like Writing Tools in the dedicated Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and Threads apps.
The Llama large language model that powers Meta’s chatbot is considered to be on par with ChatGPT in terms of language understanding and answering complex questions (it can search for information across the web), but faster than OpenAI’s chatbot, which is more complex and requires more computational resources.
Some users of the Meta AI web app in select countries may be included in a new test where the chatbot can create new documents with text and images to export as PDFs. Uploading documents to the chatbot for analysis and context is also in testing.