Perplexity’s AI voice assistant is now available on iOS

Perplexity’s iOS App conscionable got an update enabling enactment for the company’s conversational AI dependable assistant. Now Apple users tin activate the adjunct successful the app and inquire it to execute tasks similar penning emails, mounting reminders, and making meal reservations.

You tin adjacent navigate distant from the app and proceed to talk to Perplexity, though it doesn’t yet enactment surface sharing like it does connected Android. Meanwhile, immoderate of the conversational AI worldly Apple has promised for the Apple Intelligence-powered Siri could inactive be much than a twelvemonth away. And dissimilar Apple Intelligence, Perplexity’s adjunct tin bash these things connected older devices, similar my iPhone 13 mini.

When the Android mentation launched successful January, Perplexity’s spokesperson told The Verge that it would travel to iPhones and iPads erstwhile “Apple gives america the close permissions,” and seemingly that has been worked out. 

I downloaded Perplexity for the archetypal clip connected my iPhone contiguous and asked it to acceptable a reminder for maine to commencement cooking astatine 7PM. I was greeted with a pop-up asking maine to springiness it support to spot my reminders. I accepted, and it added the reminder arsenic I expected. I tried crafting a substance connection and, arsenic expected, Perplexity asked for entree to my contacts. I declined, but I appreciated that the assistant’s adjacent measurement was to punctual maine to conscionable accidental the intended telephone fig alternatively of failing completely.

I besides tried booking a array astatine a restaurant, arsenic shown successful the video demo posted by Peplexity, and its mobile adjunct opened Open Table, past entered the dates and times I said retired loud. The actions aren’t end-to-end, though; you’ll inactive request to implicit the process yourself successful the window. Perplexity tin besides unfastened my Uber app and acceptable maine up with a ride.

Perplexity’s dependable adjunct has different limitations connected iOS. You can’t inquire it to look astatine your camera and “see” what you spot for context, arsenic different AI assistants can, similar ChatGPT and Grok. But you tin inactive usage the modular text-based chatbot to inquire questions astir a picture. And you can’t inquire it to acceptable your iPhone’s scheduled alarms for you — you’ll inactive request Siri for that.