In case you don’t love Siri in your iPhone, too unhealthy—you are caught with it. At the same time as Apple desires to sprinkle it up with Apple Intelligence, it is nonetheless very missing in comparison with different assistants. Perplexity’s Assistant is lastly on iOS, and in the event you’re prepared to do some workarounds, it is fairly good.

Perplexity has rolled out a big replace to its iOS app, introducing a brand new Voice Assistant function designed to convey superior conversational AI capabilities to iPhone and iPad customers. This has beforehand rolled out to Android, and for what it is value, it is fairly good. It options integration with numerous apps resembling Spotify, so it might probably carry out duties for you, and when it might probably’t, it is nonetheless the identical conversational Perplexity chatbot we have come to know and use. I’ve used it because the assistant on my Google Pixel 9 Professional, and I discovered it to be fairly good, although I did roll again to Gemini because of the higher third-party app help.

The brand new Perplexity assistant can carry out a big selection of duties by interfacing with varied apps and system features. It will possibly present instructions and real-time visitors updates utilizing Apple Maps, it permits you to set reminders, e-book rides by way of companies like Uber, and handle calendar occasions (scheduling and modifying). It will possibly make reservations by way of appropriate reserving web sites, draft and ship emails straight, provoke messages by way of iMessage or different appropriate apps, and place cellphone calls. And when it is not performing duties for you, you’ll be able to ask it normal information questions, and it’ll leverage its number of LLMs to reply them for you—Perplexity has a number of fashions together with OpenAI’s GPT-4.1, Google’s Gemini 2.5 Professional, and Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet. It is fairly full, and it excels in numerous situations the place Siri lacks so much.

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The draw back right here is that whereas that is by all means a greater assistant than Siri, you’ll be able to’t really absolutely “exchange” Siri as your cellphone’s assistant with this. Siri is the default voice assistant on iPhones and iPads, and setting a special assistant inside straightforward attain requires workarounds. As a substitute, that is accessed by way of the Perplexity app in your iPhone, although there’s a shortcut that you would be able to both put in your lock display or assign to your cellphone’s Motion button for fast entry. So it may not be your cellphone’s important AI assistant, however you’ll be able to nonetheless entry it rapidly as if it have been.

The brand new assistant is now rolling out as an replace to the Perplexity app, so be sure that to grab it from the App Store now.

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