The official Google+ iPhone app is now available.The app is available as a free download [iTunes link] from the App Store.
Here’s a list of the app’s features, along with their descriptions.
- Circles let you share the right things with just the right people.
- Stream is where you can get updates from your circles or see what people are saying about things nearby.
- Huddle is super-fast group messaging for everyone in your circles.
First Impressions: Buggy, But Fun
First impressions of the app are that while useful, it’s buggy. The app doesn’t work on iOS 5 beta 3 — so cutting-edge adopters, you’re out of luck (for now) — and is crashing in iOS 4 at regular occurrences for some users.
Punit Soni, lead product manager for Google+ Mobile responded to some of the complaints on Google+ and he is promising updates.
Let us know your thoughts in the comments.
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The icon can also display notification badges, depending on your settings.
The opening app screen.
Google+ for iPhone is using the same layout that it uses on Android. The layout is also similar to what Facebook and other services use.
iPhone users now have access to various Huddles directly from the phone.
The stream defaults to a user's circles. You can switch to "nearby" an "incoming" by swiping forward or backward on the screen itself.
The default stream view is to show all of your circles.
You can also opt to view posts from people near you.
Google+ doesn't like in-stream YouTube videos. Expect this to get fixed soon.
This is the single view of a post on Google+.
You can mute or report a post from within the app.
You can checkin directly from the app.
Google+ cares about your privacy!
This is a screenshot of a screenshot with the same screenshot embedded. How meta is that!
This gets old FAST. Fortunately, you can turn off notifications.
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