The Perplexity bot is now available on both iPhones and Android devices, allowing you to ask it to set reminders, send messages, and more.
Perplexity’s iOS App just got an update enabling support for the company’s conversational AI voice assistant.
Now Apple users can activate the assistant in the app and ask it to perform tasks like writing emails, setting reminders, and making dinner reservations.
You can even navigate away from the app and continue to speak to Perplexity, although it doesn’t yet support screen sharing like it does on Android.
Meanwhile, some of the conversational AI stuff Apple has promised for the Apple Intelligence-powered Siri could still be more than a year away.
Perplexity’s spokesperson told that it would come to iPhones and iPads once “Apple gives us the right permissions,” and apparently that has been worked out.
The actions aren’t end-to-end, though; you’ll still need to complete the process yourself in the window. Perplexity can also open my Uber app and set me up with a ride.
Perplexity’s voice assistant has other limitations on iOS. You can’t ask it to look at your camera and “see” what you see for context, as other AI assistants can, like ChatGPT and Grok.
But you can still use the standard text-based chatbot to ask questions about a picture.
And you can’t ask it to set your iPhone’s scheduled alarms for you — you’ll still need Siri for that.