We're excited to introduce the Perplexity Assistant on iOS: the first time an AI app can answer questions and take basic actions on your iPhone: starting with playing media, drafting emails, moving meetings, booking rides, making reservations, setting reminders. Update your Perplexity app to try!

We're excited to introduce the Perplexity Assistant on iOS: the first time an AI app can answer questions and take basic actions on your iPhone: starting with playing media, drafting emails, moving meetings, booking rides, making reservations, setting reminders. Update your Perplexity app to try!

You can ask it to play anything: podcasts, hard to find videos, favorite songs. Even things like "play me the video of Katy Perry kissing the ground after landing from the rocket", or "podcast where andreessen discusses browsers with lex".

Calendar integration is still a bit janky and requires you to use Apple Mail and Apple Calendar, but it works well once you set it up. Reviewing your day, scheduling meetings, and sending emails just from your voice mode.

And you can book rides and navigate easily with Apple Maps.

Some things to keep in mind:

1. Apple Music is the default. Apple Mail is the default. We will add support for Gmail/G Calendar.

2. It will still take 3-4 seconds to connect when you turn on voice mode. We will try to shorten this. RTC issue.

3. You can customize your Action button on your iPhone to Perplexity Voice Mode to use this without having to open the app, just like how you use Siri.

Install / Update your Perplexity app on iOS to get going!

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