Perplexity has rolled out an replace for its iOS app, giving iPhone customers entry to its AI voice assistant that was initially launched for Android customers earlier this 12 months. Its voice assistant can carry out duties for the consumer by looking the online or accessing different apps for them. In the event that they ask the assistant to seek out them a desk for a particular restaurant, as an example, Perplexity can launch the OpenTable app with the variety of folks, the date and the time already crammed out. The consumer nonetheless has to carry out the ultimate motion and ebook a reservation, but it surely's already laid out for them — all they should do is click on the button.
Customers also can ask the assistant to draft emails for them for particular contacts, which they'll should ship themselves, and create reminders for them on the calendar. They’ll ask it to suggest them spots they may go to, similar to eating places serving meals they wish to eat, and Perplexity will mark places on the map. In fact, they’ll ask the assistant to do internet searches for them, similar to discovering particular movies that Perplexity can open on the YouTube app.
As The Verge notes, Perplexity's voice assistant works on older iPhones, not like Apple Intelligence that solely works on the corporate's newer fashions. The iOS assistant additionally doesn't have the potential to take a look at the world for the consumer and inform them what they're seeing but, although the function is already accessible on Android and will make its approach to iPhones sooner or later.
Introducing Perplexity iOS Voice Assistant
Voice Assistant makes use of internet looking and multi-app actions to ebook reservations, ship emails and calendar invitations, play media, and extra—all from the Perplexity iOS app.
Replace your app within the App Retailer and begin asking right this moment. pic.twitter.com/OKdlTaG9CO— Perplexity (@perplexity_ai) April 23, 2025
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