Gov.uk smartphone app to launch with limited functionality | Apps
By: Robert Booth UK technology editor | Published: 2025-06-30 21:30:00 | Source: www.theguardian.com
A government app intended to “cut life admin” will be free to download by millions of UK citizens from Tuesday, but its functions will be limited and the cabinet minister in charge has admitted: “The design is not as we would like it to be.”
The gov.uk app will be accessible on smartphones for people aged 16 and over and is intended to be the main mobile hub for many citizen interactions with the government, although not the NHS or HM Revenue and Customs.
Peter Kyle, the secretary of state for science and technology, said the version launched this week would only steer users to existing government webpages, with more functionality to be added by the end of the year.
A generative artificial intelligence chatbot trained on 700,000 pages of the gov.uk website is not yet ready….
