Perplexity now has a mobile assistant on Android

Jan 24, 2025 02:41 AM - 2 weeks ago 20727

Perplexity has turned its AI “answer engine” into a mobile adjunct connected Android. The caller assistant tin reply wide questions and execute tasks connected your behalf, specified arsenic penning an email, mounting a reminder, booking dinners, and more.

It’s besides multimodal, meaning you tin inquire it questions astir what’s connected your surface arsenic good arsenic person it unfastened your camera and “see” what’s successful beforehand of you. In an illustration shared by Perplexity, a personification asks the adjunct to “get maine a ride.” Once it learns wherever the personification wants to go, the adjunct automatically opens Uber pinch disposable rides to that destination.

I tried it retired for myself, and it is benignant of neat. When I asked it to “open up a bully podcast,” my telephone started playing the latest section of The Joe Rogan Experience connected YouTube. It worked alternatively quickly, moreover though its sensation whitethorn beryllium questionable.

Perplexity gave maine the rundown connected these promotional Pokémon cards.

Perplexity gave maine the rundown connected these promotional Pokémon cards.

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Using my phone’s camera, Perplexity’s adjunct successfully identified the promotional Pokémon battalion I sewage successful a McDonald’s Happy Meal (don’t judge), which I recovered awesome since the promotion only started a mates of days ago. It besides helped maine constitute and nonstop a matter to a family personnel utilizing the accusation successful my contacts.

Alongside Samsung’s announcement of the Gemini-equipped Galaxy S25, Google revealed that its AI assistant tin now complete tasks crossed aggregate apps, arsenic good arsenic complete multimodal requests.

But Perplexity’s adjunct doesn’t activity crossed each app and pinch each feature. It’s not capable to entree Slack aliases Reddit, for example, and I besides couldn’t usage it to time off a remark connected a YouTube video. Right now, the adjunct supports Spotify, YouTube, and Uber, on pinch email, messaging, and timepiece apps, according to Perplexity spokesperson Sara Platick. “We’re continuing to adhd support for much apps and much functionality though, truthful this is conscionable the starting point,” Platnick adds.

You tin alteration the adjunct done the Perplexity app, which prompts you to switch your phone’s default adjunct pinch Perplexity. From there, you tin swipe up connected the near area of your surface aliases clasp down your location fastener to entree the assistant.

It’s presently not disposable connected the iPhone, however. “If Apple gives america the correct permissions, we’ll make it happen,” Platnick says.

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