With the introduction of a significant upgrade for its iOS app on Wednesday, Perplexity unveiled a new AI voice assistant that can do a number of activities for the user, including sending emails and setting reminders. Additionally, even when the app is operating in the background, users may still speak with the AI bot using the new app. Perplexity still doesn’t offer screen or camera sharing, though, in contrast to the recently upgraded Gemini.
The mobile assistant was originally made accessible to iOS users by Perplexity in January for Android devices and tablets. Users must provide the app the required rights in order to activate all features. When allowed, it can do things like make reservations at restaurants, send out reminders, and more. Some of these functions, particularly on iOS devices, may occasionally require user input, but others are completely autonomous.
Users of iPhones can update to the most recent version of the Perplexity app from the App Store. When the new voice assistant will be accessible to Android users is still unknown.
Perplexity may use third-party applications like Uber to book a cab thanks to support for multi-app activities. When prompted to play music or send an email, the app presently considers Apple Music and Mail as the default apps. However, users may customize the Action button on iPhones to use the AI voice assistant without opening the app.
This upgrade nearly turns Perplexity into Siri, but because of restricted rights, it is still unable to carry out some system-level tasks. For those, users must rely on Siri, which is also expected to receive a major overhaul on Apple Intelligence-enabled iPhones, iPads, and Macs.
Perplexity can now search for information from YouTube videos, podcasts, and other media and get real-time data. Users can share a picture and pose pertinent questions about it, but they are still unable to offer live camera input, unlike Gemini and Grok.
Perplexity users on the free tier may also utilize all of these capabilities, albeit they can only send five messages at once. Plus customers may use the new AI voice assistant indefinitely for $20 a month.
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