iPhone and iPad app update: Perplexity receives 6 comments
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As Apple moves further away from the goal of bringing its in-house voice assistant into the age of AI, other developers are making a difference: Perplexity has now expanded its iOS app with a voice assistant feature that can be used even on older iPhones and iPads.
Perplexity partially replaces Siri.
The company announced this in a post to X. The new assistant already offers features that Apple announced for Siri as part of Apple’s Intelligence, but whose introduction is not expected until 2027. If the necessary permissions have been granted to the app, notifications and calendar entries can be created, messages can be sent, smart home devices can be controlled, and table reservations can be made via booking sites, among other things. Searching and playing music and videos is now also possible via voice input.
Call at the push of a button
Furthermore, the app allows the Assistant to interact even when it isn’t open in the foreground. In this case, voice commands can also be given, to which the Assistant responds with voice output. The update also contains a link for the Assistant, which can be stored on the lock screen. Perplexity can also be assigned to the iPhone’s action button. While Apple’s AI solutions are only available on newer devices, Perplexity also works on older iPhones and iPads, thus reaching a much larger user base.
Multiple AI services under one hood
Perplexity leverages the capabilities of leading speech models, including OpenAai’s new GPT 4.1, Google‘s Gemini 2.5 Pro, Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Bonnet, and XAI’s Grok-2. However, iOS users still have to do without the screen-freezing feature already available on Android, which allows the assistant to analyze screen content.
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