Perplexity launches advanced voice assistant for iPhone

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Perplexity has just updated its iPhone app to include voice assistant support. The company announced this in an X (Twitter) post. 

This means that iPhone and iPad users can now talk to the app to get help with everyday tasks. 

For example, you can ask the assistant to help you write emails, set reminders, or even make dinner reservations, all just by speaking to it.

What’s cool is that you don’t need to keep the app open to use the voice assistant. 

You can leave the app and still talk to it, though there are some things it can’t do on iPhones just yet. 

For example, it doesn’t support screen sharing, which it can do on Android phones. 

So, if you were hoping to share your screen with the assistant to get help, that’s not an option for now on iOS.

Introducing Perplexity iOS Voice Assistant

Voice Assistant uses web browsing and multi-app actions to book reservations, send emails and calendar invites, play media, and more—all from the Perplexity iOS app.

Update your app in the App Store and start asking today. pic.twitter.com/OKdlTaG9CO

— Perplexity (@perplexity_ai) April 23, 2025

Perplexity’s assistant is also faster to arrive than Apple’s own promised improvements to Siri. 

Apple is working on new AI features, known as Apple Intelligence, but many of those tools may not come out for another year or more. 

And when they do, they’ll likely only work on newer iPhones. Meanwhile, Perplexity’s assistant already works on older iPhones like the iPhone 13 mini.

It’s worth noting that not everything is perfect. On iPhones, the Perplexity assistant can’t use your camera to see what you’re looking at, a feature other AI assistants, like ChatGPT or Grok, already offer. 

But if you want to ask a question about a picture, you can still upload that image and use the chatbot in text mode to get answers.

The Verge reports that you also can’t ask it to set your iPhone alarms, which still requires Siri to do that. 

However, this update gives iPhone users an early taste of the future of voice AI, and on devices they already own.

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